As you know, Wikipedia, Reddit and a few other sites are completely blacked out today, and many other sites are protesting in other ways.

Despite the fact that the festering port-o-potty of a piracy prevention bill -- the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) -- is effectively dead, Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing are all going forward with plans to go dark tomorrow.

Pat yourself on the back, Internet.

So, Comcast recently instituted a new Internet security measure, Domain Name System Security Extensions, aka DNSSEC.

We're big fans of Ars Technica around here: they offer intelligent, detailed coverage of tech issues, including the ongoing problems with the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), or as we like to call it, the complete and total failure to grasp the concept of the Internet.

FYI, Rep.

Grover Norquist (not pictured at right) is a power player among Republicans.

So, yeah, all those horrible nasty pirates that the MPAA is insisting are killing their record profits are apparently their own employees.

So, the Stop Online Piracy Act has been the subject of controversy lately, especially since Universal Music Group decided to demonstrate what a bad idea it was to give private corporations the ability to censor other people by trying to stamp out MegaUpload's protest song on YouTube, turning them into a free speech martyr in the process.