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[Deano]

I believe that people are having problems voting on Minestatus.net and recieving errors such as:

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deano2611 is not a paid Minecraft account, or Minecraft.net is having issues and we are unable to check your username at this time.

This is due to the protest against SOPA. As this is only a 24 hour protest everything should be fine in the morning.

I just wanted to let people know what was happening especially those who do not know what SOPA is. If you do not know what SOPA is then all i can say is, have you been living under a rock?

Here is some brief information on SOPA:

Q: What is SOPA anyway?

A: There are actually two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA, in the House and sister legislation called the Protect IP [Intellectual Property] Act, or PIPA, in the Senate. Both are designed to tackle the problem of foreign-based websites that sell pirated movies, music and other products.

Federal law enforcement has the authority to shut down U.S.-based websites that offer pirated content, but they can't directly do the same to foreign sites like Pirate Bay. The Motion Picture Association of America, the legislation's main backer, estimates 13% of American adults have watched illegal copies of movies or TV shows online, and it says the practice has cost media companies billions of dollars.

Also feel free to watch this video from John "TotalBiscuit" Bain who does a very good job of explaining the whole SOPA situation.

For more information on why SOPA is affecting your voting and various other internet experiences please visit these links.

http://americancensorship.org/
http://online.wsj.co...=googlenews_wsj
http://www.minecraft.net/

Thanks for reading.

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[Rebel]

I know i always link Totalbiscuit, however he does an amazing job explaining the negatives of SOPA and Protect IP Act.
http://www.youtube.com/

[Deano]

I have not seen this video but it is a great explanation so im going to add it to the home page.

Thanks.