Today, many websites like Wikipedia and Reddit, as well as smaller ones like Halolz.com, a personal favorite of mine, have shut down and blacked out for 24 hours to protest the anti-piracy legislation moving through Congress right now. The bills SOPA, PIPA, and PROTECT IP all threaten the freedom of the internet by granting power to mega corporations and the entertainment industry to squelch new businesses and competitors without actually stopping online piracy, effectively ending the great equalizer and freedom of the internet. Read more about SOPA here, and please watch this informative video on how exactly these bills could end up destroying the internet.

And what protest isn’t complete without protest songs? May I present “The Day the LOLcats Died.”