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[Allen Lowe <lallenlowe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree. This article is worth reading by the way:
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

Allen Lowe

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jaap Broekhuizen <jaapz.b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If someone could make a mockup of such a page, then i don't think the web
> team would have any trouble creating a temporary static html page of that...
> 7 days should be very doable! So only thing is that we have to agree whether
> or not we want to do this...
>
> I totally agree with doing this!
>
> Jaap
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Daniel Fore <daniel.p.fore@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> I guess Reddit is going to do a blackout on the 18th where the whole sight
>> will be replaced with a single page describing what's wrong with SOPA and
>> how you can contact Congress and fight it.
>>
>> I think we (even though we're small) could make a few waves by
>> participating in this blackout and doing something similar.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Daniel Foré
>>
>> www.elementaryos.org
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > I hardly think we wouldn't be affected by it. We use Facebook, Google
>> > (plus, docs, search, mail, etc), Twitter, YouTube, etc to reach our users
>> > and they are all affected.
>> >
>> > Best Regards,
>> > Daniel Foré
>> >
>> > www.elementaryos.org
>> >
>> > On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:11 AM, Сергей <shnatsel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I can't see SOPA/PIPA directly affecting elementary. We hardly have
>> >> any user-posted content on the website, and the one we have tends to
>> >> be freely licensed. We do rely on external services like imagebin,
>> >> pastebin, etc, but that's not vital and we could probably host
>> >> something similar ourselves. Fortunately, SOPA/PIPA don't seem to
>> >> allow boundless patent abuse [yet], so Apple and Microsoft's puppet
>> >> consorciums won't be able to instantly shut us down either, the best
>> >> thing they can do is not mentioning us (like they do with WINE).
>> >> So I'd rather not tie it into elementary and instead present it as
>> >> being out of our scope and not affecting us directly, but crippling
>> >> the overall UX.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> shnatsel
>> >>
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