It's time to speak up!

As a direct result of the ongoing fight in Congress regarding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), we at theFIVE10 will be going dark today. That means the stream will be offline until tomorrow (1/19). We urge you to write to your elected officials and tell them that SOPA and PIPA will hurt sites like theFIVE10 and others who provide a tremendous service. If SOPA and PIPA pass that will mean the end of sites like theFIVE10. It will cost jobs, not save them as some in Congress would have you believe. It would hurt the industry and create a bureaucracy that would only help those that have continually benefited from the hard work of others. No one believes that stealing is right but the internet is a public place for ideas and interests to be shared. When people can stop thinking of the internet as intelectual property and more as a public space, then it can be allowed to flurish. When large corporations can stop trying to profit off the excuses they create, the internet can thrive. Fight today so that tomorrow we can all benefit! We join sites like Wikipedia, Google, and Wordpress to show that we will not be silenced!

UPDATE: Our stream is back online. Enjoy! Go tell your Elected Officials to stop their attack on the internet!

DOUBLE UPDATE: The Federal Goverment has taken the fight against piracy one step further and shut down Megaupload. Read about it here!

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