I like my WIkipedia just fine: Why the SOPA act is a bad idea

If you hear about some random bit of trivia or want information on some obscure fact, what's the first thing you do?  Sure, Google will work, but your best bet would be Wikipedia.
If you hear about some cool new viral video, your first stop isn't Hulu, it's YouTube.
But what if there was no Wikipedia, no YouTube... In fact, no un-copyrighted material at all available on the internet?  Well, that's where we're headed, folks.  Not even a single photo on Facebook will survive after this.  You can even kiss your beloved Nerdy Babble Today goodbye if  SOPA (or the Stop Online Piracy Act) gets passed.  It's just a bill at this point, but if it gets passed, all your favorite sites will get "black-outed" overnight, not only Wikipedia and YouTube, (though those are the ones that affect me the most), but numerous others will be affected too, including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, eBay, and many more.  It's all well and good to try to prevent online piracy-- but there's GOT to be a better way to do it.

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