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Thursday's GoDaddy boycott may not have been the revolution some had hoped for, but it was enough to convince the domain hosting firm to publicly oppose the controversial Stop Internet Piracy Act ("SOPA").

Yesterday, we noted that it appeared that the "GoDaddy boycott" concept may have been losing steam, thanks to the company's decision to move away from supporting the bill... combined with a new aggressive advertising campaign.

On the eve of “Dump Go Daddy Day,” imgur.com -- one of the largest image hosting sites in the world, responsible for an astonishing 28 terabytes of bandwidth -- has already changed its registry entries, foreshadowing the potential negative effect of a boycott over SOPA legislation.

Boycott Novell: "Summary: Assorted new reports about how Microsoft abuses “open source” to gain control of it, change its direction and goals, or even to misuse the label to promote proprietary software that harms standards and promotes patenting of software"

Boycott Novell: "Summary: A detailed analysis of the pseudo-firm (Elliott) that wants to buy Novell and how the bid came about"

Too Much Information: "We fully support Ogg/Theora as an upload format. As for playback, the likeliness of that happening is close to zero at the moment."

Boycott Novell: "Summary: Moonlight “promise” full of legal holes and Novell's Visual Studio surrogate removes GPL code"

Boycott Novell: "Summary: A large number of reports on the subject which affects Free software at a legal level"

Tuxmachines: "Up until Shuttleworth's comment I defended men's rights to freedom of speech. Beyond that I was barely interested in feminists topics.

I worked in male dominated areas all my life and I guess I just accepted that's the way men are. They tell their dirty jokes, they hang their stupid posters, they flirt, and condescend a little."

Boycott Novell: "Summary: Strong words from the revered founder of the Free Software Foundation and more Microsoft/Mono news"