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SOPA, PIPA, Online Piracy Lead Week's Security News

Published January 22, 2012

Despite weeks of intense lobbying by technology companies and consumer advocates, the controversial anti-piracy bills seemed on track to pass in Congress. Then Wikipedia took a stand this week, declaring a 24-hour blackout on Jan. 18, during which its English language edition that only displayed a statement saying the site had gone dark to protest the draconian measures in the bills.

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