i have some video recorded at in 2005 with jimmy wales. >> what is jimmied wales -- jimmy wales mean to you? >> he is the co-founder or spiritual leader of "and elvin dictator for life -- been relevant dictator for life." people look to him for leadership. i do not have a personal relationship with him. i have worked with people who have worked with the quite a bit. i am grateful for what he put together. i think he goes down in history as someone who has done one of the truly amazing things in the last 10 or 20 years. that is about it. >> are there any people other than yourself that has a web site that deals with the world of wikipedia? >> there are a number of web sites written by people who are wikipedia editors. most are focused on their intended audiences, other wikipedia editors. i think they have a better leadership. it is sometimes futile what i tried to do, try to explain wikipedia to people. a lot of people read wikipedia. maybe they're curious about how it works but not so curious that they spend a lot of times to get out information. i occupy a unique niche there. it is

jimmy wales is the cofounder of wikipedia. thank you for joining us. >> good to be here. >> that was a big move. going dark for 24 hours them world had to survive without 20 million articles on wikipedia for 24 hours. have you gotten the response you expected to wednesday's blackout? >> yeah. we have had an enormous response. we have had 90 million people view the protest page. we have had 4 million people look up the phone number of their representative. so we hope that translated in to an enormous number of calls in to washington to let them know how the public feels. >> tell me about this supposed legislation. it doesn't seem like a bad thing to limit piracy of copyrighted materials or products. so where's the evil here? why do you think these two pieces of po tenial legislation go too far? >> yeah, i think it is important to realize that it's one thing to say we want to fight piracy and i don't have any objection to that. what i have an objection to is doing it in such a way that involves building the entire infrastructure

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. >> that was jimmy wales, interesting analogy. why does wikipedia feel this is bad? >> it is part of a huge tidal wave of anger that desperate across silicon valley about the legislation. they feel this is a back door to censorship, by making them almost responsible for policing the internet. ends up linking to your web site that has pirated material or wikipedia has something that may contain copyrighted material, if they could be targeted. their freedom to go about their business could be impeded. there's a real feeling on that side of the argument that this is a threat to the whole way the open internet works. >> but on the other side of the other-- >> the page on the wikipedia says "imagine a world without free knowledge." >> they have that on the web site any time you search for anything on their web site. the other side says you are vastly exaggerated the extent of these laws, but they will not apply that way, and that there's a real threat to hundreds of thousands of jobs in the u.s. in the creative industry from online piracy, which has not been policed. we h

wikipedia founder jimmy wales says the english lank version will go dark for 24 to 48 hours.nline encyclopedia is one of the websites protesting anti- piracy law. supporters of this will crack down by not -- crack down on this. >>> occupy protesters gave congress a rowdy and contentious welcome in the nation's capitol today. [ cheers ] >> a few hundred protestifiers were onhand. the occupiers clashed with the police. one person was arrested for allegedly assaulting an officer. the protesters say they are angry about the influence of corporate money on politics. >>> tickets for sunday's nfc championship game at candlestick park go on sale tomorrow. but you have a chance today to get four tickets for free. team owner jed yorks says -- >>> for those paying for tickets, season ticketholders get the first shot tomorrow morning at 10:00. tickets open to the general public three hours later. but a lot of people are already selling their seats online. we checked stubhub. prices -- pricing range from $300 all the way up to $30,000 for one ticket. this is the first time the 9ers have h

lillian spoke with wick peed why founder jimmy wales and in the newsroom with the story. >>reporter: wick peedia will blackout the web site for one day. not the first site to announce plans to shut down but the most well known. don't say you haven't been warned. in black and white this is alerting the users that the site will go dark on wednesday. abc 7 spoke to the founder of the community source information site over the phone. >> i have a message to the users of wick peedia that are approximately 25 million a day in america alone. dot homework before midnight. >>reporter: it is shutting down to protest a bill going through congress called s o p a. stop on line pirate act. bill is intended to occur till copyright violation on the internet but those in the industry say it could give court the power to take down a web site that links pirated material posted in a foreign country. >> so this could interfere with free speech ritz of company like google to link to web sites that are accused of copyright violations so even though google may not have done anything wrong simply

lillian spoke with wick peed why founder jimmy wales and in the newsroom with the story. >>reporter: wick peedia will blackout the web site for one day. not the first site to announce plans to shut down but the most well known. don't say you haven't been warned. in black and white this is alerting the users that the site will go dark on wednesday. abc 7 spoke to the founder of the community source information site over the phone. >> i have a message to the users of wick peedia that are approximately 25 million a day in america alone. dot homework before midnight. >>reporter: it is shutting down to protest a bill going through congress called s o p a. stop on line pirate act. bill is intended to occur till copyright violation on the internet but those in the industry say it could give court the power to take down a web site that links pirated material posted in a foreign country. >> so this could interfere with free speech ritz of company like google to link to web sites that are accused of copyright violations so even though google may not have done anything wrong simply

. >> wikipedia and its founder jimmy wales are teaming up with other websites taking part in the blackout. they're protesting against proposed new u.s. laws aimed at combating online piracy of films, music, and other content. critics claim the new legislation is too tough and could force some websites to shut down. but supporters of the new laws, including many hollywood studios and media moguls like rupert murdoch say they're crucial to stopping online piracy. and some of the biggest names online aren't taking part in the blackout, including twitter and google. the new laws are being debated in congress, but the final decision may rest with president obama. he's got the power to veto the legislation. and so far, his administration opposed it, arguing it could undermine free speech. >> let's bring you some news that's coming to us -- it's not good news. the latest report from the world bank saying that debt problems in the euro zone weakening growth in developing countries will have a huge effect on global economic growth in the next couple of years. the bank has slashed more than 1% of i

but wikipedia founder jimmy wales says he and other protesters can't ignore what they see as a threat to free speech. darren gersh, "nightly business report," washington. >> susie: shares of carnival >> susie: shares of carnival cruise lines moved sharply lower today. the stock tumbled almost $5, or 14%, in its first day of trading since one of carnival's ships ran aground off the coast of italy, killing 11 people. while analysts believe carnival can absorb the immediate financial impact of the crash, they're worried about future bookings. carnival books almost half of its sales for the year between january and march. >> most cruises are booked currently now and in february, in the wave season for that big third quarter season, and the pricing on that could be kind of severely marked down if this problem stays in the front of the news. >> susie: carnival shares with that 14% loss were the second worst performer on the s&p today, tom. >> coming up in a moment. the shares are town with the carnival here as well susie. let's go ahead and roll with tonight's market focus. this morning's s

to talk about that now with us in london hi there tony good to see you were completely offended jimmy wales said that the planned u.s. laws would quote harm the free and open internet and bring about new tools for censorship and international websites inside the united states do you think the bills really are that worrying that are being proposed. well it's certainly very very scary this bill but actually that is good news for a change because it looks like all the activism around so this stop online piracy act in the united states has borne some fruit since barack obama has come out now saying that he would veto the bill if the act if it goes through so i mean this isn't something positive to say here but certainly it was a very frightening idea i mean if you talk about piracy it's called the stop online piracy act this who are the real pirates who are the big guns here in the in the media world and on the internet the answer is the people with the big money who are backed by the banking system wall street etc those are the real i think the real problem because what's going on here is an a

sandra aistars, what do you say when the head of google calls this bill an internet kill switch, and jimmy wales of wikipedia threatens to take down all its content? >> guest: well, i think it's really sad that people are resortingsorting that to that kf hyperbole. i think there's been a good faith effort by some companies to have a constructive dialogue about the big to offer constructive suggestions, and i think the manager's amendment reflects that. there have been other organizations that will equally have to implement the bill's requirements that really care about the way that their customers interact online and want to make sure that their customers aren't being misled by rogue web sites. and so you see entities like visa and mastercard and the american bankers' association coming forward to support the bill as well. so i think it's a question of money sometimes as well. i think these sites that are being targeted by the bill are incredibly popular, and it's very profitable for some companies to offer, um, advertising against them and to monetize search results, um, for very popular conten

we're going to let wikipedia founder jimmy wales let you know.ng me live. >>> a gruesome story out of los angeles today. a human head was found by two women just walking their dogs on the trail just below the famous hollywood sign. police say the dogs started playing with something they found in a bag. the women took a closer look and discovered it was a severed head. according to the l.a. times, police believe the head belongs to an armenian american man in his 40s. >>> an apparent smokebomb tossed over the fence at the white house. protesters were holding a rally at the time. president obama was not home. he and the first lady were at a restaurant a couple blocks away celeating her 40th birthday. >>> secretary leon panetta just announced reducing sex assault in the military. better investigations, better training and more uniform data system. last year there were more than 3,000 reports of sexual assaults in the military. >> the most important thing i think we can do here is to try to train leaders at the command level to make sure they're awar

we have bib on the sorie for a couple weeks, we spoke to jimmy wales before he blacked out his website to protest the bills. >> i'm a big believer that we should be dealing with issues of piracy and in a serious way, but this bill is not the right bill. >> media companies including time warner which owns cnn supported the legislation, but it wasn't enough to convince congress. just how big of a victory is this for internet companies? i'm joined by deckland. good to see you. how big of a win is this for tech companies, and this is big established media versus big media. >> well, it's a pretty big win. this is huge and what's interest is that the tech companies didn't even roll out the heavy artillery. this is the light artillery. google said sign a petition. they didn't say here's a link where you can get your members of congress's phone number. or better yet, here's a link to his primary opponent and maybe you should donate some money. that's the real heavy artillery, so the tech companies have another weapon and hollywood did not see this coming. they got rolled by the internet this w

we spoke to wikipedia cofounder jimmy wales before he blacked out his website. >> i'm a big believerous way, but this bill is not the right bill. >> media companies including time warner supported the legislation, but it wasn't enough to convince congress. just how big of a victory is this for internet companies? i'm joined by deck land, he's been following this for cnet. how big of a win is this and this is big established media versus big media. >> well, it's a pretty big win. this is huge and what's interest xiaoqiang that the tech companies didn't even roll out the heavy artillery. this is the light artillery. google said sign a petition. they didn't say here's a link where you can get your members of congress's phone number. and maybe you should donate some money. that's the real heavy artillery, so the tech companies have another weapon and hollywood did not see this coming. they got rolled by the internet this week. this is a historic week in internet politics, maybe american politics. >> it was pretty amazing. all the presidential candidates wei weighing in on this last night

earlier, i spoke to the man at the center of this entire story, co-founder wikipedia, jimmy wales.spoke to me from switzerland and we talked to him about stealing songs by aqua and barbie girl and why he's so passionate about this issue. >> for us, the openness of the internet and freedom of speech issues are paramount. one of the things we do know is in the u.s. we have a perfectly reasonable and workable regime for dealing with copy right violations. if the group, aqua, wants to have that song removed from youtube, they just notify youtube and youtube has the responsibility to take it down. that's not really the issue here. the issue is things like dns blocking, blocking overseas sight that have infringement content, placing all kinds of burdens on community generated sites like wikipedia to police what our users are doing in an unreasonable way. i'm a big believer we should be dealing with issuespiracy and in a serious way but this is not the right bill. >> it appears to be a fair point, how are you supposed to police everything in a site created by millions and millions of peop

wikipedia cofounder jimmy wales expects about 25 million visitors will be affected.on the site, do your home, early. or just do it. >>> hackers may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million zappos customers. ceo of the popular online shoe store says no credit card information was stolen but e- mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit cards may have been compromised. zappos is contacting customers and urging them to change their pass words as soon as possible. >>> coming up next, we'll go live to fox business network in new york. if you can't wait for that whopper, we'll tell you more about burger king's plans for delivery service. just what we need. >> because the drive-through wasn't enough. >> yeah. >> as we go to break, you never know what you will find when you go digging around in old cabinets. scientistses in britain found fossils collected by charles darwin and his peers that had been lost for 165 years. cool. it turns out they were stashed in dusty corners of the british geological surve

jimmy wales, the wikipedia founder, you're reading his comments, he's not opposed to keeping an eye outiracy. he's saying it's too broad and in his words, badly written. what is it about the bill that makes it too broad? >> i don't know anybody who says, we really want to make money out of piracy. wikipedia allows anyone to post anything and they're worried, and this is why wick immedia immediatepedimmediatpedia is joining the blackout along with craigslist and google is going to have a home page statement tomorrow to say that this raises free speech concerns. it raises security concerns. because it undercuts the security technology that's supposed to make the web safe. it's almost written, they say, by people who don't really understand the internet. >> go figure, politicians not understanding things. what are the chances that hollywood and silicon valley are going to be able to get together and perhaps come up with a compromise? >> well, they have, and they do work together. i mean, youtube has licensing deals, netflix has licensing deals. steve jobs really kicked this off almost a de

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