Internet as a Weapon

With over 7,000+ websites either going offline, blacking out, or putting up links and banners in protest of the SOPA and PIPA bills do you think it will revolutionize how the internet is used in politics? Is it the Internet equivalent of a WMD? Is it a abuse of power from those who own these sites and will it forever change for better or for worse how we think of using the world wide web?

Some of the sites involved in this protest are

Opensuse.org (will blackout with INFO)
Reddit (will blackout with INFO in 04h 10m 57s as of time of this post)
Google (They are displaying a banner and information to contact
Craigslist (is blacked out with INFO)
LPlive.net (is blacked out with info)
Wikipedia (is blacked out with INFO)
Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) (is s blacked out with INFO)
The CheezBurger Network (will black out with info)
Boing Boing (has blacked out with INFO)
IMGR (to be blacked out with INFO)
Pwned.com (is blacked out with INFO)
Twitpic (will blackout with INFO)
Mozilla (will black out with INFO)
Mojang and minecraft (is blacked out with INFO)


and many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many MORE. (If you have a list please post it)



So, what do you think about how these companies are proceeding, do you agree or disagree?
If you disagree but still oppose these bills what would you do differently?
Are these companies overstepping their rights?
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I personally support this.

 

It's going to be passed, regardless of how many websites black themselves out. It's a futile effort, but I can appreciate it. Members from a lot of chapters of the Occupy movement are at Congress and the White House, doing what they do.

This is one of the few times where I'd be GLAD to eat my words and be wrong about this. But it's only been building to this point ever since Napster exploded onto the scene years and years ago. Instead of the film and music industry, and the government more or less, adapting to current times and changing their business models, they want to strong arm our government into passing bullshit like this just to protect their (dwindling) profits. This is make or break. If it passes, they've won. If it doesn't, I think, maybe, JUST MAYBE, they might start to realize that their archaic methods of promoting, distributing and releasing products just isn't going to cut it in 2012, especially in the music industry. People are always going to go to a movie theater to see a movie, because that's just the way movies are supposed to be seen. Music, however, is a completely different medium and needs a face-lift, bad.

Piracy is always going to exist. You can remove most websites from the internet, but another one just like it is going to pop up within a matter of hours/days/weeks. It's like a computer virus you can't get rid of. It's here to stay, it's the people that are lobbying for this bill to be passed that need to change, not the internet and it's various methods of "stealing".

Do the evolution, baby.

 

Current form, being the key word. But, regardless, that's good news.

 

kill them all

 

don't give a fuck?