{"id":1801,"date":"2012-01-14T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2012-01-14T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T12:00:54","slug":"sopa-protests-scheduled-for-jan-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"SOPA Protests Scheduled For Jan 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several American sites have decided to go dark on January 18th to protest the <strong>Stop Online Piracy Act<\/strong>, a controversial piece of legislation that has been introduced into the <strong>House Of Representatives<\/strong> in the <strong>United States<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reddit<\/strong>, <strong>Red 5 Studios<\/strong>, <strong>the Chezburger sites<\/strong>, <strong>Major League Gaming<\/strong>, <strong>Sonicretro<\/strong>, <strong>Gog.com<\/strong>, <strong>Minecraft\/Mojang.com<\/strong>, <strong>xda-developers.com<\/strong>, <strong>Platform Nation<\/strong>, <strong>Dark Legacy Comic<\/strong> and <strong>TuCows<\/strong> (my registrar) are the first to confirm their participation. And this list of sites will likely expand as more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectinnovation.com\/downloads\/Opposition_Dec16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed opponents<\/a> decide to participate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectinnovation.com\/downloads\/letter.pdf\">Click here<\/a> to read a joint statement against <strong>SOPA<\/strong> from <strong>AOL Inc.<\/strong>, <strong>eBay Inc.<\/strong>, <strong>Facebook Inc.<\/strong>, <strong>Google Inc.<\/strong>, <strong>LinkedIn Corporation<\/strong>, <strong>Mozilla Corp.<\/strong>, <strong>Twitter, Inc.<\/strong>,<strong>Yahoo! Inc.<\/strong> and <strong>Zynga Game Network<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several American sites have decided to go dark on January 18th to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial piece of legislation that has been introduced into the House Of Representatives in the United States. Reddit, Red 5 Studios, the Chezburger sites, Major League Gaming, Sonicretro, Gog.com, Minecraft\/Mojang.com, xda-developers.com, Platform Nation, Dark Legacy Comic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[508,884,909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}