"Do your homework early." That's the warning Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has issued some time ago. The reason, Wikipedia is going to blackout! The English version of the popular online encyclopedia will blackout and will be inaccessible for 24 hours starting the Tuesday-Wednesday midnight (10.30 AM on 18 January in India).
This is in protest of the anti-piract legislations, Protect IP Act (PIPA, the Senate bill) and the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA, the House bill), which the US State Congress is aiming to enact.
The blackout move by Wikipedia is the first major move by an internet company against the proposed legislations, which the entire Internet community has been vehemantly opposing. At the 17-18 Jan midnight EST Wikipedia's English version will go from white to a black background and remain so for 24 hours.
In India, the blackout will last for 24 hours starting at 10.30 AM on Wednesday 18 Jan. It is not clear if Google will also join suit, however, a couple of Google employees, through the Google Plus profiles, have been helping other portals effectively implement the blackout without getting their site ranking affecting in the search engine.
Source:- http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
This is in protest of the anti-piract legislations, Protect IP Act (PIPA, the Senate bill) and the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA, the House bill), which the US State Congress is aiming to enact.
The blackout move by Wikipedia is the first major move by an internet company against the proposed legislations, which the entire Internet community has been vehemantly opposing. At the 17-18 Jan midnight EST Wikipedia's English version will go from white to a black background and remain so for 24 hours.
In India, the blackout will last for 24 hours starting at 10.30 AM on Wednesday 18 Jan. It is not clear if Google will also join suit, however, a couple of Google employees, through the Google Plus profiles, have been helping other portals effectively implement the blackout without getting their site ranking affecting in the search engine.
Source:- http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
