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Wikipedia, other websites go dark in anti-piracy bill protest

Wikipedia is down in protest of SOPA, but there's a couple of workarounds you can use to access Wikipedia's content. Patent-holders argue they spend billions to develop drugs and need to maximize their profits to create the next Lipitor, but tell that to a pensioner who needs an expensive drug to live. Wikipedia blacks out [...]

Wikipedia goes dark for 24 hours to protest web piracy bills

Wikipedia, the largest collaborative online encyclopaedia, would have blacked out for a day (January 18) by the time this column is printed, to protest the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) that is gaining momentum with the US lawmakers. As announced, Wikipedia's main page is "blackened" today in protest of the controversial Stop online privacy act [...]