| Its threatening every single site in the internet, except sites that belong to the force group that came up with SOPA and PIPA to begin with - US government and MPAA and RIAA
The main sites on target are community projects where actual intellectual property is created or shared - This would include piracy sites and also DeviantArt and other sites which are extremely attractive target
The next part are sites that provide alternatives to copyrighted materials. For example, a site which promotes music made by free (non RIAA) artists, open source software, etc. Which may attract users away from the profitable products (RIAA albums etc)
And, the laws are to be expected to be abused against any arbitrary website the government see fit. This may include many political, protest, free speech, blogs, websites with ontent the government can assume dangerous, etc. Though it is unlikely that our protests against bulb bans are significant enough to attract a ban this way
Lighting Gallery does belong to the "piracy" threat group, because many of the Youtube videos in the gallery have copyrighted music as sound tracks
So i'd suggest :
1. Immediately stop uploading videos with copyrighted music. Leavig the original sound recording of the video is best where applicable, or else find some free shareable music instead
2. Review the existing videos and perhaps re-upload the ones that pose threats
3. Exchange Email and IM addresses with key site members and make contact outside the site. This way if the site is taken down, we do have contact with each other to rebuild it together
If anybody wants my email or MSN messenger, PM me
SOPA and PIPA are of way higher risk for the main part of free communication on the internet. I definitely suggest to apply the strategy (remove material that put the site in a threat group unless this material is the main point of the site, and keep contact outside the site) in other sites too
Also i suggest to keep a backup of the site contents (or key part of them) offline, so that they can be shared between the members (and possibly reuploaded later) if the site is taken down. This is not critical for LG, but is critical for sites in which the main content belong to 1 of the threat groups, such as sites with copyrighted / alternative content or hacking resources
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