Wikipedia blackout

[Horsham Gull]

Are having a black out of the English language version of there site in protest against the proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate — that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.

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Interesting never seen a website do this before must be something that is seriously going to affect them

 

[AgerBomb22]

Looks like students will be doing some proper research for a change

 

[GreersElbow]

Wikipedia usually has links at the bottoms as information requires referencing. Possibly the most helpful tool to use, books aren't always easy to come by. And studying law, the books provided don't always have relevant cases to use. So the internet can be very helpful in that respect.

Anyone who uses wikipedia alone however, doesn't deserve the good grades.....

 

[Tomnorthi]

I love wikipedia. Just reading through it can pass an hour when Im bored.

 

[Seagull27]

As a heads up, the mobile version of wikipedia still works. So if you want to look at a page, just put an 'm' infront of the web address and it should work.

For example, if you wanted to look at the BHAFC page, the normal one directs you to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_%26_Hove_Albion_F.C.

But put a '.m' after the 'en.' and you get this:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_%26_Hove_Albion_F.C.

 

[Sausage]

This the beginning of the end of the world.

And losing to Palace would mark the end of the end of the world.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Does anyone ever use wikipedia? because its updated by the public i'd assumed the information was as reliable as newspapers?

 

[Lush]

As always, it sounds as if it's all about money - particularly once you start talking about Intellectual Property. I presume that it would no longer be possible to cut and paste an article written on the club website, for example, so we can talk about it here. Or mess around with a Macdonalds logo. Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the material on Wikipedia is 'paid for'. It sounds as if it's a serious threat to the freedom of the internet.

 

[Mendoza]

Screw this, I'm using Encarta 95 and we are Brighton and are very happy at The Goldstone

 

[narly101]

The US Sopa and Pip acts are ridiculous. They grant the US rights to bring to bear ANY website, even if they aren't based in the US, to legal legislation within the US.

 

[Bozza]

Does anyone ever use wikipedia? because its updated by the public i'd assumed the information was as reliable as newspapers?

It's the 6th most visited website in the world so, yes, one or two people use it. It's an incredible resource.

 

[In The Rough]

And it is available today if you disable javascript on your browser.

 

[ozspike]

Its all because of the influence of the movie industry in the US and how much cash they put into US politicians campaign funds

 

[Falmer]

The governments are now trying to suppress the internet. It's the one tool they haven't got control over. When Ron. H. Hubburd had once said 'the internet was a mistake' it sort of tells you everything you need to know on the powers of the internet.

 

[looney]

The US Sopa and Pip acts are ridiculous. They grant the US rights to bring to bear ANY website, even if they aren't based in the US, to legal legislation within the US.

A bit of an over reaction. All the companies that are objecting are those that get something for nothing and then make money out of it via advertising. I Read the PIP and it wont effect NSC unless suddenly the Albion site is hosted in the USA and starts objecting to NSC's copyright infringements then gets NSC blocked to US users.

Generally football clubs dont object to copyright infringements for good reasons, it would be seen as attacking fans as well as being seen as free advertising and marketing.

Students should aquire strange items that in the good old days where known as books and journals. They may find them useful. Free speech arguements seem a bit specious, NSC would run the same kind of risk of some idiot posting links to counterfiet goods as it would someone posting links to KP or Beastiality.

How many users would be effected if NSC was removed from the US DNS?

 

[Badger]

Screw this, I'm using Encarta 95 and we are Brighton and are very happy at The Goldstone

Encarta 95 that brings back memories, I was just about to look it up on Wikipedia to see if it was still around, d'oh!
I did find this http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/03/31/microsoft-encarta-filed-under-h-for-history/ which shows that it has now died and there are some amusing comments at the bottom in which an American gets owned.

 

[Fungus]

Does anyone ever use wikipedia? because its updated by the public i'd assumed the information was as reliable as newspapers?

And the rest of the web is reliable, because it's updated by people we can "trust"?

Wikipedia isn't that open, and is constantly scrutinised. The odd story might be wonky, but is usually corrected pretty quickly. It's the first place I go to, because Google gives information overload - and there is no way to know which results can be trusted.

As with everything, though, you have to use your intelligence, and never trust a single source for anything important.