What ultimately pushed the Internet cause over the top in the piracy battle was supporting fire from nonprofit groups like the foundation behind Wikipedia, which says it didn't coordinate with Google or other companies.

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Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, acknowledged as much when it sent an email in April insisting that it would cooperate only after an order was issued by a U.S. court.

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Volunteers who run Wikipedia said it was not for the foundation to censor the site, which is one of the web's most popular.

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