Its over acording to fight for the future.com, a website against the SOPA and PIPA bills with a large amount of people joined. This is what they sent through email:

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






We're indebted to everyone who helped in the beginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb to protest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank you Tumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more.

#SOPA and #PIPA will likely return in some form. But when they do, we'll be ready. Can you make a donation to Fight for the Future, to help us keep this fire going?



We changed the game this fall, and we're not gonna stop. $8, $20, every little bit helps.

13 million strong,

Tiffiniy, Holmes, Joshua, Phil, CJ, Donny, Douglas, Nicholas, Dean, David S. and Moore... Fight for the Future!


P.S. China's internet censorship system reminds us why the fight for democratic principles is so important:

In the New Yorker: "Fittingly, perhaps, the discussion has unfolded on Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site that has a team of censors on staff to trim posts with sensitive political content. That is the arrangement that opponents of the bill have suggested would be required of American sites if they are compelled to police their users’ content for copyright violations. On Weibo, joking about SOPA’s similarities to Chinese censorship was sensitive enough that some posts on the subject were almost certainly deleted (though it can be hard to know).
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After Chinese Web users got over the strangeness of hearing Americans debate the merits of screening the Web for objectionable content, they marvelled at the American response. Commentator Liu Qingyan wrote:

‘We should learn something from the way these American Internet companies protested against SOPA and PIPA. A free and democratic society depends on every one of us caring about politics and fighting for our rights. We will not achieve it by avoiding talk about politics.’"

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(press release is here: https://fightfortheftr.wordpress.com/press-releases/)

Today, MegaUploads was stormed by the US goverment (claims saying being hacked by anonymous), its staff and creator arrested and guess what, If you have a mega uploads account, they might arrest you. the computer's files include account info. 1 lady was already sued for 1.5 Million dollars for downloading 24 songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD1yaE0GfQ

If you have a megauploads account or any other file sharing site account, I just hope for you.

1K MEMBER MILESTONEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The 1,000th member is:

New Member - January 18th @ 10:54pm - =██=m██09 joined group


I'm really proud of all the effort (and advertising) you did.

The other Anti-SOPA groups are really in the dust now! (We're the #1 anti-SOPA group on steam, leading by approximately 300 members)

I'll have to reward this with something tomorrow or this weekend.

Good job to everyone involved.

With this kind of support, we can show SOPA and PIPA who's boss!

--Efruit{G4M}

We've got 128 members left to gain before our first major (not unnoticed on my part) milestone.

Make it happen today.
I know we can do it.
We've grabbed more than that these past weeks, and I'm sure with all this hype over Wikipeda, Google, BoingBoing, etc. SOPA/PIPA's would have gotten their names out plenty today.

--EFruit{G4M}
[USER WAS CHARGED WITH A FELONY FOR THIS POST]
(Promoting SOPA evasion and circumvention technologies and tactics)

For the second time, SOPA's been revived from it's previous null state.

The "Blackout" happens tomorrow, with the sites blacking out or participating as follows:

- Wikipedia EN: Offline
- BoingBoing: Offline
- Reddit: Offline
- Google: Link on main page
- MediaFire: Banner on all pages
- Facebook: ???
- Twitter: ???
- Steam: No.
- Microsoft anything: No.
- Microsoft XBOX Live: Read above.
- Apple anything: ???
- Mojang: Offline
- Minecraft: ^
- Project Zomboid: Offline


As we reach near 800 members, I'd like to remind all of you why I made this group. Support of Freedom. Not just freedom on the Internet, not just on the computer. Everywhere. As a student preocupied with academics, this is everything I can do. I'm absolutely amazed that this group grew up so fast, and I'm astounded that this many people can gather together because of one single topic.

In addition to the previous list, I'm sad to say that my BBS (among other services now hosted on that server) is fully functional, but in the spirit of the blackout, it will not be availible tomorrow. Unless the server catches on fire tomorrow, I will have the services up on 1/19/12 at approximately 5:00 PM EST. Stay tuned to the parent group for that.

Good luck surviving without Reddit, Wikipedia and BoingBoing.

heh.

--Efruit{G4M}