Websites go dark to protest SOPA

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SOPA represents the latest effort from the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and their allies to counter what they view as rampant piracy on the Internet, especially offshore Web sites. It would allow the Justice Department to obtain an order to be served on search engines, Internet service providers, and other companies, forcing them to make a suspected piratical web site effectively vanish. It's opposed by many Internet companies, users, and civil liberties groups.

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