Forum:The pass of SOPA/PIPA would have been the end of Wikisimpsons in 2012

Hello! 2 years ago, the FBI closes Megaupload and and their owners were arrested, including the founder of the website, Kim Dotcom, due to Copyright Infringement. That coincided with Anti-SOPA/PIPA protests in 2012. Wikipedia closed the website during 1 day, with the message, "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge". In that time simpsonswiki.com was simpsonswiki.net. The pass of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) would have been the end of Wikisimpsons in 2012. The Simpsons Season 25 episode, "Steal This Episode", reminds me Megaupload and the laws SOPA and PIPA. Wikisimpsons could be shutdown if pass an anti-piracy bill. --BTony70099 (talk) 15:30, January 19, 2014 (EST)

Wikisimpsons doesn't stream episodes to the public though. The only things that could be removed are the images, and we correctly attribute them to FOX. We are doing nothing wrong. How would we have been shut down? ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 15:41, January 19, 2014 (EST)

Because the pass of an anti-piracy law, would shutdown many pages about The Simpsons and anything that have copyright. The former News Corporation (who created FOX), supported SOPA. TPP is the next threat. Wikisimpsons is the best online encyclopedia dedicated exclusively to The Simpsons and i don't want to shutdown. --BTony70099 (talk) 15:48, January 19, 2014 (EST)

Those laws were against streaming of videos and the like and maybe some content. However, the bill never got passed, it was never going to get passed, there was too much opposition. Even then I'm pretty sure it was America only, which means we could have easily gotten around it by hosting the wiki in another country. We were never directly threatened about it either. We were going nowhere. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 15:56, January 19, 2014 (EST)