I am truly surprised that Gentoo, and more GNU/Linux and *BSD sites did not join in the 'blackout'. The only one I saw that did was opensuse.org .
These laws, as I understand them, and I am no lawyer, could be used against open source kernels, operating system tools, and other open source applications by companies that would benefit by eliminating competition or potential competition. The definition of infringement is so broad, and the blocking is required with just a single complaint - it could really be used to wreak havoc on the Internet, in general, and by the big players to eliminate the smaller competition. Lame alone could shut down just about every distribution and their mirrors since the mp3 encoder algorithms are patented and cross-patented in so many ways that just the distribution of the source code could result in a complaint and many blocks. Chris --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 120118-1, 01/18/2012 Tested on: 1/18/2012 6:55:49 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2012 AVAST Software. http://www.avast.com
