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Protesters gathered in front of New York Senator Charles Schumer's offices in Manhattan2. Wide of protesters gathered3. Wide of protester Josephine Dorado holding sign reading (English)...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNew York, New York - 18 January 2012 -  New York \u003cbr/\u003e1. Protesters gathered in front of New York Senator Charles Schumer's offices in Manhattan\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of protesters gathered\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of protester Josephine Dorado holding sign reading (English) \"I fight for the users. Stop SOPA/PIPA\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Josephine Dorado, protester: \u003cbr/\u003e\"None of the bills do what they're supposed to be doing. They're supposed to stop online piracy and they're supposed to protect intellectual property and neither one of them do that. What they do is they suppress user content, they suppress our voices, and it puts the burden of monitoring the content onto the business. So different kinds of user generated sites, like Twitter, like Facebook, other sorts of social networks are then burdened to monitor and really censor their users' content. And that's not stopping piracy at all. That's just suppressing our freedom.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Zoom out of protester Michael Gray holding sign reading (English) \"Stop PIPA\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Gray, protester:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There's a fundamental lack of understanding by the lawmakers for how the internet works, and some idea that the answer is the regulate speech, that the answer is to make everybody suddenly responsible for what other people are saying. And I think it's going to stifle companies from the kind of expression that drives the internet.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of protesters' signs\u003cbr/\u003eSan Francisco, California - 18 January 2011\u003cbr/\u003e8. Set up of Reddit.com general manager Erik Martin at computer\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of Reddit.com website on screen\u003cbr/\u003e10. Screen shot of Reddit website with blackout message posted\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Erik Martin, general manager of the online news sharing site Reddit.com:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Both of these bills are extremely dangerous to the tech sector, to companies like Reddit, and also to the way the internet works right now. They are very broad, they are very vague, they are technically just ignorant, and they are really set up for abuse. So they would drastically affect our ability operate a site like Reddit, especially the ability of new founders to start up the next Reddit or the next Facebook or the next Twitter.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, New York - 18 January 2012\u003cbr/\u003e12. Screen shot of Google website with logo blacked out\u003cbr/\u003e13. Screen shot of Wikipedia website with blackout message posted \u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 18 January 2012\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael O'Leary, Senior vice president at the Motion Picture Association of America:\u003cbr/\u003e\"What is going today with the blackouts and some of the other things you are seeing are really just gimmicks and its posturing and the sad thing is it's an effort to distract from the true problem here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of Senior vice president at the Motion Picture Association of America, Michael O'Leary\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael O'Leary, Senior vice president at the Motion Picture Association of America:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you are someone who has a great idea and wants to put it up on the internet and you play by the rules and you follow the law, this bill will have absolutely no impact on you. This bill is focused on criminal activity, people who hide themselves overseas to avoid US law, and then exploit American workers and American creativity.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, New York - 18 January 2012\u003cbr/\u003e17. Screen shot of Wired.com site with content blacked out\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) John O'Connor, Recording Vice President, American Federation of Musicians: \u003cbr/\u003e\"For our members, we're talking about musicians who are composers who make their livelihood, who have spent years of their lives developing a talent for making compositions, songs, etcetera, and this income stream that they should have in order to support their livelihoods is being literally stolen by the theft on the internet.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Screen shot of Firefox web site with message posted (English) \"Protect the internet\"\u003cbr/\u003eDemonstrators against proposed Internet censorship laws gathered outside New York Senator Charles Schumer's offices in Manhattan on Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003eProtesters are angry at two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programmes.\u003cbr/\u003e\"None of the bills do what they're supposed to be doing,\" said Josephine Dorado. \"They're supposed to stop online piracy and they're supposed to protect intellectual property and neither one of them do that. What they do is they suppress user content, they suppress our voices ... and that's not stopping piracy at all. That's just suppressing our freedom.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIn a move that heightens the growing tension between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, Wikipedia and other websites went dark on Wednesday in protest.\u003cbr/\u003eThe web-based encyclopedia is part of a loose coalition of dot-coms and large technology companies that fear Congress is prepared to side with Hollywood and enact extreme measures - possibly including the blocking of entire websites - to stop the online sharing and unauthorised use of Hollywood productions.\u003cbr/\u003eThe fight will test which California-based industry has the most sway in Washington.\u003cbr/\u003eFor now, Silicon Valley appears to have the upper hand. \u003cbr/\u003eSupporters of the legislation, called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in the Senate, say the bills are aimed at protecting jobs in the movie and music industries. \u003cbr/\u003eBut a campaign including tech heavyweights such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. has successfully portrayed the bills as an attack on a free and open Internet.\u003cbr/\u003eRather than showing encyclopedia articles, Wikipedia displayed a blacked-out page describing the protest and offering more information on the bills. \u003cbr/\u003eReddit.com shut down its social news service for 12 hours. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Both of these bills are extremely dangerous to the tech sector...and also to the way the internet works right now,\" said general manager of Reddit.com, Erik Martin. \"They are very broad, they are very vague, they are technically just ignorant, and they are really set up for abuse.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOther sites made their views clear without cutting off services. \u003cbr/\u003eGoogle blacked out the logo on its home page, directing people to a page where they could add their names to a petition.\u003cbr/\u003eThe one-day outage was timed to coincide with key House and Senate committee hearings as they prepare to send the bills to 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