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Shirky talks about the evolution of online content law from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 leading up to SOPA and its sister bill, PIPA. Shirky also calls the online community to action asking them to preserve their rights to share. “Because the biggest producers of content on the internet are not Google and Yahoo – they’re us – we’re the ones getting policed,” he explains. “The real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.” If one can measure success of a movement in tweets, then coordinated Internet protest of now notorious anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA was a smashing success. According to social media site Twitter, over 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets were sent on Wednesday between 12 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time. The site also said that the top five most frequently used terms for the day were “SOPA,” “Stop SOPA,” “PIPA,” “Tell Congress” and “#factswithoutwikipedia.” A handful of beloved sites like Wikipedia and Reddit shut down their sites entirely for the day, offering users an one-paragraph explanation of their protest as well as a link directing users to online petition against the legislation. And while not going quite as far in their protest as Wikipedia and Reddit, web giants Google and Facebook also registered their disapproval of the hugely unpopular legislation. And after using their popularity to unify and mobilize the masses, Washington seems to be getting the picture. Reports are already emerging from the nation’s capital today that PIPA co-sponsor Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and SOPA co-sponsor Representative Ben Quayle (R-Arizona) have removed their names from the respective Senate and House versions of the legislation. A number of other senators have also defected, leaving the bill which was expected to have broad bipartisan support with just 30 members of the Senate still tenaciously supporting the bill. Remaining supporters are expected to attempt to revise the most controversial parts of the bill before submitting it to a vote, but in the wake of yesterday’s massive Internet protests and the White House’s thinly veiled veto threat over the weekend, many political commentators believe the bills will be DOA. Advocates of Internet freedom can hope this is case. Today was the internet’s big protest day against SOPA and PIPA, and not surprisingly, there was plenty of discussion about the issue on Twitter. Specifically, the company tweeted that that there were more than 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets between midnight and 4pm Eastern time. The top terms were SOPA, Stop SOPA, PIPA, Tell Congress, and the hashtag #factswithoutwikipedia (referring to Wikipedia’s anti-SOPA blackout, natch). So how impressive was the Twitter turnout? Well, the company likes to release “tweets per second” stats for events that spur the most activity, but a company spokesperson told me Twitter doesn’t have those numbers for SOPA. Still,, Twitter says it saw 8,868 tweets per second, for example, during the MTV Music Awards, which adds up to more than 2 million tweets in four minutes. It’s an apples-and-oranges comparison, but suggests that anti-SOPA tweets weren’t quite at that level. Speaking of Twitter and SOPA, the company seems to be protesting the bill in a manner similar to Facebook – rather than blacking out or otherwise altering the Twitter service to show opposition, executives posted anti-SOPA messages on their personal accounts. CEO Dick Costolo wrote: “Please join me in urging Senators @SenatorReid & @ChuckSchumer not to rush #PIPA vote.” After posting SEO tips Tuesday to help blacked-out Web sites continue to get online traffic, Google’s Pierre Far has announced that the search engine’s GoogleBots, the web crawler that picks up sites to display, has been altered to move at much slower rates for Jan. 18. What does this mean for the Internet? Basically, that sites participating in the blackout are less likely to be affected by their decision to self-censor. SEO Tips for Blacked Out Sites On Tuesday, Google provided some SEO tips for Wikipedia, Boing Boing and other sites that plan to self-censor themselves for Internet Blackout Day. Search Engine Optimization is what keeps some stories at the top of Google’s news clusters, and one traffic-less day can hurt page views. Google also announced that it would be including a link to information about the controversial bill on its Web site. Google on Wednesday blacked out its google doodle in a show of solidarity. Google, which has been a vocal opponent of the controversial bills, wanted to take its protest one step further. However, because of the news sources that depend on Google Search and Google News to distribute information, from CNN to The IBTimes, the search engine wasn’t able to do a full blackout all day. That’s when Far, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, decided to the Web site could still do its part in the SOPA protests. Google Slows Down GoogleBot “Hello webmasters!” Far wrote on Google + this morning. “We realize many webmasters are concerned about the medium-term effects of today’s blackout.” He then went on to explain the dilemma: if the GoogleBot, Google’s web crawler, went at its usual speed, it would pass right over sites censoring themselves to protest SOPA and PIPA, effectively erasing them from search.

Kourtney and Kim Take New York Season 2 Episode 9