What does SOPA stand for?

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - it failed, but apparently nobody told the feds...

It has rendered MegaUpload dead. Succeeded or failed? The former seems gainning the upper hand.

Yes, the controversy goes on. Besides SOPA (explained above), there's also PIPA (and I frankly don't know what those letters stand for).

I don't think it has killed any website - yet. There were some that shut down for a day in protest of the bill. One of those was wikipedia.

Oh, really?

http://able2know.org/topic/183373-1

http://able2know.org/topic/183376-1

Thanks. That sounds like a web site was shut down for piracy, but not as a result of SOPA having been passed. Is that what you meant? There used to be a great site, whose name I've forgotten that was also shut down. It was THE place to go for free music downloads. It was a case of existing copyright violations, which will continue to be illegal whether SOPA is passed or not.

I wonder if we're talking about the same thing.

I groaned yesterday on the outage of wiki. Because I was checking some data there. I read through their protest statement. Luckily, I did some trick to shun the blackened page and got the wiki items that I wanted.

But like LA, I didn't get what PIPA stood for.

Got it:
PIPA is the new SOPA
4 Jan 2012 – SOPA's twin in the U.S. Senate is the Protect IP Act, or PIPA. Both bills threaten to rip apart the fabric of the Internet, compromise the planet's ...

Thx for that, Ori. Now I know.

Lustig (I'll probably forget what it means in minutes) Andrei