Fantastic Realities Studio's website was closed for 24-hours on January 18, 2012, to protest the U.S. anti-piracy laws - Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), which would break the internet as we know it, give the US Government and the Entertainment Industry unprecedented censorship powers, and degrade the actual structure of the Internet, causing it to be less secure and stable.
As a small design studio and self-employed freelancer, FRS depends on an open and unfettered internet for our very livelihood and joins Wikipedia, MoveOn, Reddit, BoingBoing, Mozilla, WordPress, TwitPic and the ICanHasCheezBurger network in this day of protest. Google, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr did not black out their sites on the day of protest, however, all have expressed their stance against the bills.
The Protest may be over, but we still need to defeat this legislation.
Urge your elected representatives to oppose these bills
The Senate bill is S. 968 and the House bill is H.R. 3261.
Find out more here.
Kurt Griffith, Creative Director, FRS.
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