Wikipedia plans to take its English-language site offline on Wednesday as part of protests against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US.
The sites' webmasters are opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) being debated by Congress, as they argue, this two programs would affect their website's activities in a negative way, but don't really prevent online piracy.
The very famous social network website "Twitter" announced that it won't take part in this "protest day" and therefor won't shut down their website on Wednesday.
We will see tomorrow, if Wikipedia will act as it said... .
for further information: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585
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