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While nothing official has been announced, there have been rumblings that Google, Twitter and Facebook are also planning a collective protest effort against SOPA and PIPA. Amanda Ripleys next adventure will set you back £4.99/4.99 on iOS, and while a price isnt available on Android, you can expect it to clock in around the same mark. With a little over a week away, it’s possible other social networks will join Reddit’s blackout on January 18. Pre-orders for Alien: Blackout are now live on the App Store and Google Play, and that gives us a pretty juicy piece of info - its definitely a premium game, and its set to launch on January 24th. Reddit community members are also responsible for orchestrating the boycott against domain registrar Go Daddy for its support of SOPA, which resulted in lots of bad press for the company, a mass exodus of customers to other domain registrars and the forced apology/renouncement of SOPA by Go Daddy’s executive team. The company recently reported that it brings in over 2.06 billion page views (and 34,879,881 unique visitors) to the site per month, which it achieved without a search engine marketing campaign, an advertising partnership or spending any money on outside promotion/marketing from other places (text/banner ads, commercials, etc.). The black out is definitely a bold move for Reddit, but the site’s organized protest is also very significant. The team also plans on embedding a live stream of the House committee hearing to raise awareness. “Blacking out reddit is a hard choice, but we feel focusing on a day of action is the best way we can amplify the voice of the community.ĭuring the blackout period, Reddit will display a simple message about how the proposed legislation would eliminate sites like Reddit as well as a list of links pointing to resources about SOPA/PIPA. “We wouldn’t do this if we didn’t believe this legislation and the forces behind it were a serious threat to reddit and the Internet as we know it,” the Reddit team writes in a blog post. One of the seven people who will testify at the hearing is Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, as VentureBeat previously reported. 18 congressional committee hearing to hear opinions from many web security experts and tech industry leaders about the impact SOPA and PIPA could have.