SOPA and PIPA Threaten Harmful Regulations on Online American Businesses...Including This One!

There are currently two bills that sit before Congress that would censor the Web and cripple sites (including this one) and businesses accused of piracy, without even proving that those websites are meaningfully doing so. It threatens the free flow of information and the potential for innovation online.

What are SOPA and PIPA?

Wikipedia's "Dark Wednesday" Message

Essentially, they are new ways to give copyright holders the ability to go after companies that host pirated content. Once accused, the site would be blocked from anyone within the U.S. to access them and all search engines would be required to delete links to the accused sites. Also, it requires advertisers and payment services (such as Google Adwords, Adsense, etc.) to withdraw their business with the accused site. This would literally mean that site would no longer exist, and it's days of business would be done for good.

Online giants such as Google, Twitter and Reddit have all publicly opposed the bills by "going black" today. Wikipedia has even gone completely dark by taking down the site and replacing it with a message stating, "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge," with more information regarding PIPA and SOPA and the reasons they oppose the legislation.

This would absolutely include Hard Rock Reviews and the business that we try and run here. We don't make barely any money at all, but we do it for the absolute love for hard rock and metal music. We do our best to provide you with the coolest interviews and access to the latest news. We absolutely love being able to get to meet all of you, and talk music, and give you the inside scoop on the next hot band, or what rock n' roll great is back on tour. If legislation like this goes through, Hard Rock Reviews could be at risk. We need everyone's help in opposing these bills by signing the petition Google has created. Please click the link below and sign the petition. It literally took me 10 seconds to do it. Just name, email, and zip code is all that's required. Thank you so much!

Click here to oppose the bills and sign the petition!