In solidarity with reddit and many other websites, I will be blacking out my website for several days. Non-index pages will still work if you know the URI.
The action is in protest of SOPA and the Protect-IP Acts that are working their way through Congress in the United States. They are aimed at shutting down websites facilitating Copyright and Trademark infringement, yet fall outside US jurisdiction. The bills are controversial because it is believed that they will erode the DNS system, which resolves human-readable domain names into IP addresses.
I encourage people around the world to contact their local representatives about this issue. The loss of sovereignty represented by the United States asserting control over the Internet justifies diplomatic pressure.
Edited: January 18, 2012.