My blogs will be participating in the SOPA/PIPA strike tomorrow.  If you don’t understand what this is all about, please visit the blog tomorrow between 8am and 8pm.  A short video will be linked that will explain it in fairly basic terms.  It’s not a slick, expensive video, but it talks in plain terms with not unattractive images.

I do not support internet piracy, but this legislation will do nothing to stop internet piracy and will go a long, long way to expanding the power of  the government to limit the rights of law-abiding citizens.  Copyright pirates will still be able to do their work — instead of typing in an easy to remember domain name, people who want to pirate copyrighted material can simply type in the numerical internet address (which is what the fancy domain names that are easy to use link to behind the scenes).

The MPAA (the entertainment industry organization that fights the internet at every possible turn because they refuse to learn how to compete with it effectively) doesn’t like that ordinary people are fighting this, but they want the ability to shut your site down before you’re convicted of any wrong-doing.  Think you’re not doing anything wrong?  You’ll wait until after a costly trial before you get your web access back if someone accuses you of doing something wrong.

I’m taking my site down in protest while I can still voice my concerns that someone else may be able to take it down when I’ve done nothing wrong.