New mail from "Fight for the future"

Hi everyone!

A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.

The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard.

On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.
This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.

The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”

“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."
Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause

SOPA & PIPA horror story

UK Student Richard O'Dwyer is being extradited to the United States to face USA Courts for just LINKING to copyrighted material on his webpage TVShack.net The USA is using an extradition treay intended to be used for terrorist to bring England Resident Richard O'Dwyer to America to be imprisoned for copyright infringement for what he did on his TVShack.net site in spite of the Fact that he broke no UK / England Laws and has never been to the USA.
The Famed Billionaire Alki David has publicly announced that he will cover ALL of Richard O'Dwyer's Legal Costs in the USA once he is brought here to stand trial.
MPAA Head former US Senator Chris Dodd supports the Imprisonment of World Citizens in the USA for Copyright Infringement and has called Anti SOPA and PIPA pundits "Dangerous".
This Video continues to expose how the Large Media Companies Actually Created the phenomenon of "Online Piracy" to Craft laws to take over the World Wide internet and Media Portals.

Some mail I've received yesterday (about SOPA & PIPA)

Today was nuts, right?
Google launched a petition. Wikipedia voted to shut itself off. Senators' websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them. NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks.
You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before. Tech companies and users teamed up. Tens of millions of people who make the internet what it is joined together to defend their freedoms. The free network defended itself. Whatever you call it, the bottom line is clear: from today forward, it will be much harder to mess up the internet.
The really crazy part? We might even win.
Approaching Monday's crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators publicly opposing PIPA. Last week there were 5. And it just takes just 41 solid "no" votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate. What seemed like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach.
But don't trust predictions. The forces behind SOPA & PIPA (mostly movie companies) can make small changes to these bills until they know they have the votes to pass. Members of Congress know SOPA & PIPA are unpopular, but they don't understand why--so they're easily duped by superficial changes. The Senate returns next week, and the next few days are critical.

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E agora uma música sobre a SOPA:

SOPA and PIPA

Breaking News ... The U.S. are continuing their conquest of the world through the power and total control. Guess what they did now! The American Government is trying to ruin the internet by considering create a legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. According to the congress they only want to "save the world" by shutting down, for example, Wikipedia the biggest source of info on the internet... Now... Save the world or just get a easy way to control us? I have my doubts about their good intentions.

SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act." ("IP" stands for "intellectual property.") In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in my and Wikipedia's opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet.

I think it’s pretty clear what they want. Protecting copyrights and fighting piracy are one thing, but these acts take it way too far. If these pass, you are completely forgetting about that whole “by the people, for the people” thing in the Constitution.

Websites such as Wikipedia and Google have included a blackout to their page to join the protest against SOPA/PIPA. I will leave you some links here so you can see by yourself: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

A lot of people dont believe in the whole “new world order” thing. But if you open your eyes and look it's all happening right in front of our faces. No one knows what's gonna happen in 2012 but I can assure you if we continue to be ignorant as to what's going on, it's gonna be BAD. So EVERYONE needs to educate themselves. Do your research and prepare yourself.

I apologize for the long text but I needed to express myself about this whole madness going on and since we're talking about democracy and U.S. power over the world I thought this would be appropriated.