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* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] posted a review of ''[[The Room]]'' on [[That Guy With The Glasses]] that was one of the most anticipated reviews ever. A few hours later, it was mysteriously taken down from the site. When people found out that it was because [[Insane Troll Logic|someone at Wiseau Films filed a copyright claim even though the review is protected by Fair Use laws]]... let's just say that Wiseau Films' website was inaccessible for some time thereafter. The review subsequently returned to the main site.
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/mbydq/i_let_telltale_borrow_my_jurassic_park_jeep_and/A Reddit user] once posted how a gaming company had, according to him, borrowed his custom Jeep and damaged it while transporting it to a gaming convention. He posted the name of the employee he believed to be responsible, and the site's gaming board began harassing her. The problem? [http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/mcy7l/today_i_received_nonstop_phone_calls_and_emails/ Said employee wasn't directly responsible for the damage] (assuming the story was true, which it might not have been), and had to deal with an enormous amount of hate-filled phone calls and emails, including a rape threat. The lesson here is that you should always [[Did Not Do the Research|do the research]] before launching an Internet Counterattack.
* The backlash against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA), as seen in the [[Internet Backdraft/Politics|Politics]] section of [[Internet Backdraft]]. A pair of bills that were meant to fight piracy, but in actuality, could legalize internet Censorship in the US, to the extent that anything that had a single scrap of copyrighted material could be shut down by a company. Once the internet found out about the ramifications of the bill, they fought back. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111227221807/http://americancensorship.org/ A coalition of companies and organizations] made a huge effort to make sure the bills don't pass, and even dedicated the day of the first hearing as American Censorship Day. [[The Other Wiki]] (along with other websites such as Reddit, BoingBoing, and the Cheezburger Network) went so far as doing a global blackout on January 18, 2012 in protest of the bills, which was inspired by the Italian Wikipedia, who did the same thing to protest a similar bill in Italy.
** One of the more interesting moments of this backlash was the GoDaddy Boycott - during the revelation that many people that were said to be in support of the bill actually ''weren't'', GoDaddy was one who stood by the bill's side. In response, a number of sites called for boycotts of the site and many threatened to leave, including the Cheezburger Network (who has over 1,000 domains to their name). GoDaddy initially laughed off the protest, but after a massive number of sites pulled their support, the hosting company quietly withdrew their support.
** Not to mention that, somehow, even Lamar Smith managed to neuter his own bill - he not only removed the DNS blocking part, but made it so .com, .net and .org websites - yes, the same .org that '''[[All The Tropes|This Very Wiki]]''' is registered under - are immune to the takedown provisions of SOPA. And on the day of the internet blackout, several Congresspeople and lawmakers withdrew their support for the bills.
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