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"On the 18th January 2012, hundreds if not thousands of sites/online services are going offline in protest of SOPA. Underneath you can find a list of the more major websites which are said to be going offline (not all will be confirmed, but a majority will be). This will be updated as the intentions of other sites become clear."

"Anonymous' devious and speedy campaign to undermine the defenders of copyright yesterday served both as revenge for the loss of Megaupload and a demonstration of the futility of trying to police the Wild West of the Internet. Within minutes of the Justice Department's triumphant announcement about the seizing of the massive file-sharing site, their own website was taken offline by a massive denial of service attack. The Web presences of the FBI, the MPAA, the RIAA, and several entertainment corporations involved in the case soon followed, as those tasked with protecting the Web from piracy were once again unable to protect themselves. "

"This is an import/export tool for Google Sites. Using HTML Microformats it generates an XHTML version of Sites content suitable for offline browsing and simple HTTP hosting, which is also able to be losslessly imported back into sites. "

cnet news on sopa copyright bill