QUOTE(Emperor @ Tue 17th January 2012, 5:31am)
The whole idea of Wikipedia was to pirate content from traditional information sources, process it just enough to look like it's not completely stolen, and put it all in one place where it's easy to use.
Now we see those traditional sources are starting to dry up, because there's no profit in it anymore.
And Wikipedia won't always be there either, as they make clear 100% by shutting down on 1/18/12.
If anything, the idea that Wikipedia won't always be there, and that these fly-by-night pirate sites managed by greedy post-pornographer slackers are unreliable and won't always be around, pushes me towards supporting some kind of measure to protect real content generators.
That's not even something I want... bureaucrats suck at that crap the only people who would prosper from these regs are the ones getting the gov't funds or helping organizations to comply with what are likely to be reams of stupid rules.
Agreed.
What I like is that they've gone from blacking out the USA to a global blackout.
There is only one thing that can stop it now, unqualified support for the switching off of Wikipedia from Wikipedia Review. Well, the 18th is one day when we can all rest easy knowing there will be no WikiCrap spouting forth, so bring it on! Perhaps they can make it a daily protest until Government unequivocally refuses to legislate on the Internet ever.