Having trouble using Wikipedia today? That's because the popular crowd-sourced online encyclopedia is participating in an "Internet blackout" in protest of two controversial anti-piracy bills: The ...

Update: Both SOPA and PIPA have been indefinitely postponed. We will continue to take updates about lawmakers at [email protected] As popular Internet sites shut down or blacked out in protest on ...

This week, “call your Congressperson” is not just a cliché. It’s one of the most important things you can do to make your voice heard. As Ars readers know, Wikipedia, reddit, Craiglist, and others are ...

If you think SOPA sounds like Mexican soup and PIPA is the fetching sister of a certain princess, you can be excused for wondering why Wikipedia, Reddit and thousands of other websites are blacking ...

If you’ve been paying attention to the increasingly heated debate over the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA), you may have noticed a significant spike in today’s news about the “Preventing Real Online ...

Giant domain name registrar GoDaddy is under fire after the company recently acknowledged it supports the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently before Congress. “The purpose of this legislation is ...

The Stop Online Piracy Act is an American piece of legislation, and as a general rule, American legislation has only limited influence outside US borders. My fellow Europeans might, for example, ...

Two years after the anti-piracy bill SOPA sparked protests from activists concerned about Internet freedom, issues around what can be done to limit activity online continue to rage on. The Stop Online ...

Knowing that Wikipedia would go dark for 24 hours in protest to SOPA and PIPA, I took the precaution of printing it out last night. Just kidding. Wikipedia is huge. I wanted to say just how big it is, ...

I split my time these days between Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill, and last week was a very good week to be in Washington. In the fall, I witnessed the beginnings of a unique revolt over proposed ...