For the next 24 hours or so I will respect the blackouts and not seek to circumvent the ones in place. Additionally, I have darkened the pictures I uploaded on Flickr that could be darkened (some couldn't, for some reason), and I suggest other people do so as well.

As for GOG not joining in, well, what would be the point? GOG is not an information provider; blacking out GOG would be pointless even as a symbolic gesture.

People visit HiB site only when they sell bundles. HiB is a place where you can get Steam codes for some indie games.

GOG is an international store, it has users from many different countries. It's not a news site or something. It provides services like game support or download. A blackout would turnout just like a PR stunt they did in 2010 (as far as I remember). People would not be happy.

Wikipedia blackout is amazing. I wish more websites would do the same. To show people how internet may look like after SOPA.

This.

btw:

[i]The
Council
adopted
a
decision
authorising
the
signing
of
an
anti4counterfeiting
trade
agreement

(ACTA)
with
Australia,
Canada,
Japan,
the
Republic
of
Korea,
Mexico,
Morocco,
New
Zealand,

Singapore,
Switzerland
and
the
United
States.

ACTA
is
aimed
at
establishing
an
international
framework
to
improve
the
enforcement
of

intellectual
property
right
laws
and
create
improved
international
standards
for
actions
against

large4scale
infringements
of
intellectual
property.
Negotiations
were
concluded
in
November
2010.
[/i]

this is an excerpt from this document (last page)

http://consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/agricult/127031.pdf

All the world is protesting against SOPA, and ACTA was suddenly accepted in EU...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111219/02385917123/eu-council-quietly-adopts-acta-hiding-it-agriculture-fisheries-meeting.shtml
You're a month late

You deserve a cookie for making me laugh.

Before reddit went down, a poster had a screenshot from one porn streaming site with a blackout SOPA screen. It did say you can click past that screen to get to the goods so I don't know how well that will work with the fappers. :)