For all of us Firefox users there's a new Add-on called "MAFIAAFIRE ThePirateBay Dancing" that completely defeats the coming internet censoring in a very effective and transparent fashion. Please visit their site to read more on how it works as well as to download it before the .gov forces Mozilla to ban it.

http://www.mafiaafire.com/wall-of-text-3.php

What is SOPA and how would it affect me?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329 ... t-you-faq/

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011
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Are there free speech implications to SOPA?
SOPA's opponents say so--a New York Times op-ed called it the "Great Firewall of America--and the language of the bill itself is quite broad. Section 103 says that, to be blacklisted, a Web site must be "directed" at the U.S. and also that the owner "has promoted" acts that can infringe copyright.

Here's how Section 101 of the original version of SOPA defines what a U.S.-directed Web site is:


(A) the Internet site is used to provide goods or services to users located in the United States;
(B) there is evidence that the Internet site or portion thereof is intended to offer or provide such goods and services (or) access to such goods and services (or) delivery of such goods and services to users located in the United States;
(C) the Internet site or portion thereof does not contain reasonable measures to prevent such goods and services from being obtained in or delivered to the United States; and
(D) any prices for goods and services are indicated or billed in the currency of the United States.

Some critics have charged that such language could blacklist the next YouTube, Wikipedia, or WikiLeaks. Especially in the case of WikiLeaks, which has posted internal documents not only from governments but also copyrighted documents from U.S. companies and has threatened to post more, it's hard to see how it would not qualify for blacklisting.

Laurence Tribe, a high-profile Harvard law professor and author of a treatise titled American Constitutional Law, has argued that SOPA is unconstitutional because, if enacted, "an entire Web site containing tens of thousands of pages could be targeted if only a single page were accused of infringement."

What has the response to this language been?
Mozilla, which makes the Firefox Web browser, responded by creating a page saying: "Protect the Internet: Help us stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation." It warns that "your favorite Web sites both inside and outside the US could be blocked based on an infringement claim."

Web sites including Wikimedia (as in, Wikipedia) charged that SOPA is an "Internet blacklist bill" that "would allow corporations, organizations, or the government to order an Internet service provider to block an entire Web site simply due to an allegation that the site posted infringing content." Tumblr "censored" its users' content streams, and reported that its users averaged 3.6 calls per second to Congress through the company's Web site--nearly 90,000 total.

With a bit of HTML from AmericanCensorship.org, a Web site supported by the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Public Knowledge, hundreds of Web sites "censored" themselves to protest SOPA. Even Lofgren, from Silicon Valley, has joined the fight-censorship protest.

Chrome has MAFIAAFIRE too, but it's hard to figure out, I couldn't get it to install.
I finally got into demonoid on an open registration day, I've been going crazy in their book section! It is awesome! SHTF, knitting, textbooks, how-to books, cookbooks, wow!
Pirate bay has the best comic books, though.
I use turbogalaxy.org to search for TV show episodes.
I consider it the public taking back the concept of public domain which the courts have encroached upon until it's virtually non-existent.
People don't even remember that we used to have public domain, disney's lawsuits have erased it from our history, but on some level they know we're being cheated and they're taking it back anyway.
I have a program that hides my IP, I bet I could go to blocked websites outside the country by spoofing an IP address from that country. I tried using a Canadian IP and Telus blocked me from going to demonoid!
Today's pirates are the modern version of the Monks with their illuminated manuscripts, copying and disseminating knowledge to preserve it.

Yes Tygerkittn, I too have programs that I can run that hide my IP and country of origin (Tor)... actually, that's very similar to what MAFIAAFIRE ThePirateBay dancing does according to the description. All done transparently.
When I run TOR, I boot off off of a flashdrive that disallows access to the C: drive and has it's own version of Firefox with MAFIAAFIRE. Between that isolation and the firewalls (hardware and software), I feel relatively safe browsing the network. Don't get me wrong... I don't always go that route, but it feels good to know I can without any restrictions.