SOPA on Morning Joe

Chris Dodd on msnbc's Morning Joe about Stop Online Piracy Act

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Porno Warfare 2142 - The Future with SOPA

If SOPA gets passed, there are going to be plenty of problems.  The problem of no longer having free porn will be the least of its problems.  However, I decided to make things over the top and focus on that problem for our sci-fi action flick, where criminals battle each other over what may end up as the most precious resource due to SOPA: illegal pornography.

I shot this video with only my iPhone and edited it on Premiere Pro and After Effects with the help of various tutorials I found across the internet (editing took a total of 5 days with the lightsaber sequence alone taking me THREE).  I hope you guys enjoy the video and spot all the references I sneaked into the video.  Remember, SOPA is NOT fictional so if you haven't, make sure you click the links in the vid description to learn how to fight and stop SOPA before it stops websites like these.

Will the Internet Go Silent?

With recent contention over SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) the popular communal news site, Reddit, will be shutting down on January 18, 2012. Don’t worry, however, the website will be back to its normal functioning form come January 19, just like it always has been and hopefully always will be.

Now, shutting down a website for a day doesn’t seem like much, but this demonstration will lose Reddit thousands of dollars in what would have been their advertisement revenue and other profits. The owners of Reddit have decided to make this statement to protest both SOPA and PIPA – two bills currently in the U.S. Senate. If these bills are passed, the internet in the U.S. may approach major censorship – similar to what we can see in China. Reddit’s main goal in shutting down for the day is to help spread the word that SOPA and PIPA will have very negative effects on what is today’s online community.

Furthermore, they are hoping that other major internet companies (Google, Wikipedia, etc.) will join in on the January 18th blackout to spread the message to more non-tech-savvy Internet users. 

What do you think? Will Reddit be the only major website shutting down on January 18th, or will Google and Wikipedia also join in on the protest?

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