U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could damage the use of the free and open internet. For 24 hours on January 18 2012, in order to raise awareness, Wikipedia blacked out their website. On Google's website, they put a piece of black tape across the word "Google" on Google's home page. This is all done to support the Stop Online Piracy Act. This comes across as a big deal without having the use of Wikipedia, since most students and about 53 percent of all adult internet users in the United States goes to Wikipedia for research. Wikipedia along with other websites have blacked out their websites to stop online piracy so that everyone will be able to get credit for their own work, instead of it getting stolen. http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/18/10177219-wikipedia-goes-dark-on-piracy-bill-protest-day
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