Impressive SOPA blackout

#1

Post by nicholasreed » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 10:19 PM UTC

Impressive SOPA blackout
littlehart.net

Re: Impressive SOPA blackout

#2

Post by joezydeco » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 10:44 PM UTC

So is this some kind of meta-pirate joke? The source is ripped directly from the German Pirate Party website.

http://www.piratenpartei.de

Re: Impressive SOPA blackout

#3

Post by jeff18 » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 10:45 PM UTC

Credit to Zachary Johnson: https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa

Re: Impressive SOPA blackout

#4

Post by shingen » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 10:46 PM UTC

Green Peace is also using this, not sure whether the German Pirate Party ripped it off from them or vice versa.

http://greenpeace.org

Re: Impressive SOPA blackout

#5

Post by jemka » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 10:51 PM UTC

joezydeco wrote: post #2

So is this some kind of meta-pirate joke? The source is ripped directly from the German Pirate Party website. http://www.piratenpartei.de

>ripped directly

Author of the code: "I place this code in the public domain. I require no attribution." : https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa

Your research-foo leaves much to be desired.

Re: Impressive SOPA blackout

#6

Post by joezydeco » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 10:52 PM UTC

jemka wrote: post #5

joezydeco wrote: post #2

So is this some kind of meta-pirate joke? The source is ripped directly from the German Pirate Party website. http://www.piratenpartei.de

>ripped directly Author of the code: "I place this code in the public domain. I require no attribution." : https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa Your research-foo leaves much to be desired.

My bad. I thought the public domain code was just the mousehandler at the bottom, not all the CSS tricks above.

Re: Impressive SOPA blackout

#7

Post by nicholasreed » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

jeff18 wrote: post #3

Credit to Zachary Johnson: https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa

Thank you for posting this; my dev tools cut it off when I looked for attribution (terrible excuse, I just thought it was impressive).

Re: Impressive SOPA blackout

#8

Post by jenius » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 10:56 PM UTC

There are a lot of people using this, I am at http://jenius.me as well.

This was posted 3 days ago and rose to the top of hacker news when the original author released it, I don't understand why some other site is now getting credit for it or why a duplicate link is on the popular page of HN again...

Here's the link from 3 days ago, with over 170 upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3468386

Re: Impressive SOPA blackout

#9

Post by JohnTHaller » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 11:14 PM UTC

LibreOffice.org seems to be the one that started popularizing this script.

Re: Impressive SOPA blackout

#10

Post by NanoWar » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 11:19 PM UTC

shingen wrote: post #4

Green Peace is also using this, not sure whether the German Pirate Party ripped it off from them or vice versa. http://greenpeace.org

Well that's probably why they're called Pirate Party :P