Author: arma Date: 2012-01-18 08:36:13 +0000 (Wed, 18 Jan 2012) New Revision: 25322 Added: website/trunk/en/sopa-pipa.wml Modified: website/trunk/en/index.wml Log: add a static copy of ou blog post, since we're killing the blog Modified: website/trunk/en/index.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/en/index.wml 2012-01-18 02:44:30 UTC (rev 25321) +++ website/trunk/en/index.wml 2012-01-18 08:36:13 UTC (rev 25322) @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ <!-- END MAINCOL --> <!-- SOPA black band of Internets death --> -<a style="width:900px;height:400px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;background-color:#000;position:absolute;z-index:5555;top:100px;left:50px;background-image:url(/images/stop-censorship-small.png);background-position:center center;background-repeat:no-repeat;" href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/blackout-against-copyright-overreach-stop-sopa-and-pipa"></a> +<a style="width:900px;height:400px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;background-color:#000;position:absolute;z-index:5555;top:100px;left:50px;background-image:url(/images/stop-censorship-small.png);background-position:center center;background-repeat:no-repeat;" href="https://www.torproject.org/sopa-pipa"></a> <!-- end SOPA black band of Internets death --> <div id="sidecol"> @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ <div class="calendar"><span class="month">Jan</span><br><span class="day">18</span></div> <p>Tor states its concerns over the proposed US legistation in SOPA/PIPA. Read more at <a - href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/blackout-against-copyright-overreach-stop-sopa-and-pipa">Blackout + href="https://www.torproject.org/sopa-pipa">Blackout Against Copyright Overreach: Stop SOPA and PIPA</a></p> </td> </tr> Added: website/trunk/en/sopa-pipa.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/en/sopa-pipa.wml (rev 0) +++ website/trunk/en/sopa-pipa.wml 2012-01-18 08:36:13 UTC (rev 25322) @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +## translation metadata +# Revision: $Revision: 25296 $ +# Translation-Priority: 2-medium + +#include "head.wmi" TITLE="Blackout Against Copyright Overreach: Stop SOPA and PIPA" CHARSET="UTF-8" + +<div id="content" class="clearfix"> + <div id="maincol"> + <!-- PUT CONTENT AFTER THIS TAG --> + <h1>Blackout Against Copyright Overreach: Stop SOPA and PIPA</h1> +<hr> +<p> +The Tor Project doesn't usually get involved with U.S. copyright +debates. But SOPA and PIPA (the House's "Stop Online Piracy Act" and the +Senate's "Protect-IP Act") go beyond enforcement of copyright. These +copyright bills would strain the infrastructure of the Internet, on +which many free communications -- anonymous or identified -- depend. +Originally, the bills proposed that so-called "rogue sites" should be +blocked through the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). That would have +broken DNSSEC security and shared U.S. censorship tactics with those of +China's "great firewall." +</p> + +<p> +Now, while we hear that DNS-blocking is off the table, the bills remain +threatening to the network of intermediaries who carry online speech. Most +critically to Tor, SOPA contained a provision forbidding "circumvention" +of court-ordered blocking that was written broadly enough that it <a +href="http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2011/12/15/stopping-sopas-anti-circumvention.html">could +apply to Tor</a> -- which helps its users to "circumvent" +local-network censorship. Further, both bills broaden the reach of +intermediary liability, to hold conduits and search engines liable +for user-supplied infringement. The private rights of action and +"safe harbors" could force or encourage providers to censor well +beyond the current DMCA's "notice and takedown" provision (of which <a +href="https://www.chillingeffects.org/">Chilling Effects</a> documents +numerous burdens and abuses). +</p> + +<p> +On January 18, we're joining <a +href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/">Wikipedia</a>, +<a +href="http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html">Reddit</a>, +the <a +href="http://blog.media.mit.edu/2012/01/media-lab-is-against-sopa-and-pipa.html">MIT +Media Lab</a>, and <a href="http://americancensorship.org/">hundreds of +others</a> in protest, turning a portion of the Tor site black to call +attention to copyright balance and remind the US Congress and voters of +the value of the open Internet. +</p> + +<p> +U.S. citizens, please call or write, to <a +href="http://americancensorship.org/">urge your representatives to stop +SOPA and PIPA</a>. Elsewhere in the world, keep an eye out for similar +legislation. and bring the fight there too. +</p> + + <hr> + <h1>The above is a static version of our Jan 18 <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/blackout-against-copyright-overreach-stop-sopa-and-pipa">blog post</a>.</h1> + + </div> + <!-- END MAINCOL --> +</div> +<!-- END CONTENT --> +#include <foot.wmi> +