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US anti-piracy legislation: a tangled web | Editorial
The urge to regulate copyright is understandable but the draconian means proposed are out of all proportionThere was a brief return to the boom times for dusty reference libraries yesterday, when the greatest invention of the last decade suddenly ceased to function. Wikipedia, the website that now serves as the planet’s collective memory, pulled the plug on its English-language pages for the day, in protest against US legislation that threatens to entangle the web.
published date:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:38:50 GMT