Now that
Is how it is done :-)
The new owner of the domain name Righthaven.com, which until recently belonged to a notorious copyright troll, has used his purchase to openly mock the Motion Picture Ass. of America. The website currently displays a heavily and ironically redacted open letter to MPAA chief Christopher Dodd, and lends support to yesterday's …
Well done for missing the point you sanctimonious pillock!
I saw the blackout on several of my favourite sites, I knew about the workarounds but out of respect I refused to bypass the blackouts and did not use the sites for 24 hours. It was no great hardship and in a small, tiny way, I did my bit to support it.
I think you both kinda missed the point, the aim wasnt to stop people from accessing it, it was to raise awareness.
People loading up the page for the first time were made aware of SOPA and what was happening, people who otherwise may not have had any idea. Wiki even gave instructions on how to bypass it on their main page, because once you were made aware of what they were standing up for, the job was done.
Not accessing the website out of principle for the day doesnt really make any difference for what they were trying to achieve.
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He wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper which read (in translation):
Dear Sir,
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Yours faithfully
Heinrich Heine
Said it all
Before this version, there was just the nojellyfish logo, saying "...coming soon..." and this comment in the page source:
<!--Oh... you want a hint do you? Very well: "Does your current provider possess a spine?"-->
It would be nice to have a schedule to know when to go back to look for the next episode :)
(The greater subtlety of this latter is perhaps due to the fact that it was directed to a more sophisticated and better educated public than today's.) Being unsophisticated myself, I do hope that WikiLeaks will get hold of of the original and publish it unredacted, so that we can see what's hiding under all that black ink....
Henri