Wikipedia pages Strike Operations

Online encyclopedia pages (online), Wikipedia, kept his promise to turn off for 24 hours as a form of protest against the draft Anti-Piracy Law Online (SOPA) and the Bill of Intellectual Property Protection (PIPA) that discussed the U.S. Congress.
English version of Wikipedia is temporarily inaccessible. It will last for the next 24 hours, starting from Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:00 pm.
VIVAnews when trying to access Wikipedia at 12.30 pm today, no longer appears plain view. On the computer screen looks a graded gray page with a big black Wikipedia logo on the left side of the screen.
On the right side of the screen there is a message from the founder of the site. The sound of her message as follows:
'Imagine A World Without Knowledge Free
For more than a decade, we spend millions of hours preparing the largest encyclopedia in human history. Currently, the U.S. Congress is preparing a regulation that could disrupt the Internet free and open to the fatal. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we turn off Simple. '
At the end of the message contained a link that can be clicked accessor to know more clearly about the SOPA and the middle of bustling PIPA discussed. In the page that appears when a link is clicked, mentioned also the reason why the SOPA and PIPA considered to endanger the future of freedom of expression in cyberspace.
According to BBC news station, Wikipedia is not the only one who protested SOPA. Other technology companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and eBay also protested by advertising in a number of leading newspapers, asking Congress to re-think before cooking the SOPA.
In SOPA, will set the ban and closing the sale of piracy, be it movies, music, and other objects. The trick, a number of Internet companies will be forced to shut down access to sites deemed unlawful.
Not only that, internet ad networks will also be forced to stop online advertising. Then, the search engine will be arranged so as not to have links to sites that are considered to distribute the results of piracy.
Proponents of this rule, which consists of record labels and movie studios of Hollywood, consider this rule will not have a major impact on the number of sites based in the U.S..But for the naysayers, SOPA and PIPA is a terrible threat to the openness of information exchange on the Internet