Stop SOPA! Stop BREIN! Stop BUMA-STEMRA! Stop GEMA! Stop HADOPI! Stop…

The Blender Foundation is joining in the protest against the limitation of freedom on the internet.

Ton Roosendaal writes:

Blender Foundation is for an open and free internet, and is worried about how copyright protection is endangering digital rights in EU and USA.

I’m fully supporting the protests today against the SOPA bill that might get accepted in the USA. With Blender Foundation being established in the Netherlands, I would like to emphasize that similar ideas have either already been established or are being lobbied here and in other European countries.

Continue reading on Blender.org.

Friday Hangout: Holiday Plans?

I don’t know about you, but I’m going to take a few days off next week (not from writing for BlenderNation though, mind you ;-). And you? Will you have any extra spare time that you can use for your next Blender project? Tell us all about it! Image submissions are open again, so feel free to share any pictures or screenshots of what you’re working on.