Hey Hubzers,

The Anti-SOPA movement has turned to the dark-side. Starting Wednesday Jan.18 major sites such as Wikipedia and Reddit will take on a dark persona, donning all-black, in order to protest SOPA and PIPA.

Wikipedia and Reddit are just two websites that could be greatly affected by SOPA and PIPA, two controversial bills that would hold websites liable for user generated material.

The following bills grant the government power to take down websites that infringe copyright laws.

Under SOPA, sharing a video with copyrighted material would be copyright infringement,  take this viral video for example (29,000,000 view and countless shares to social networks),  ft. Sophia Grace and her rendition of Nicki Minaj’s hit “Super Bass”:

YouTube along with other sites that served as a sharing platform for this video (Google+, Facebook, Twitter) would be considered liable.

What I’m getting at here is Facebook could be blasted straight off the face of the Internet without recourse or remorse.

In the words of  Mashable writer, Zachary Sniderman, the bills would “compromise the ability of any site that includes outside links to carry on current operations.”

Not to mention the bill would cost $47 million tax dollars a year. Censorship is expensive, free speech speaks for itself.

Check-out this video:

Stay-tuned to the Internet, starting January 18th some of your favorite websites will slip on their little black dresses in protest.

If you would like to join the wake (WordPress, TwitPic, Free Press, MineCraft, Mozilla, and many more will be participating), here is the code. Just be sure to hold out until January 18th, or else you will be “that guy” who missed the memo and started dancing 30 minutes before the flash mob.

Feel free to sound-off in the comments below!