While their concern about piracy is understandable, it’s a reassuring fact that the companies have found some sense in not supporting the bill. That or it might be threats from a certain group.
As most of you netizens may have known by now, the incredibly restrictive SOPA bill is in hot discussion across the internet and has been causing some shifts in internet activity.
Just this week, GoDaddy.com (which hosts this very site by the way) reversed its decision on SOPA and pulled support from it after a dedicated campaign started on Reddit called for the movement of domains away from the offending provider. Today, perhaps in an effort to further contain the damage, GoDaddy has openly spoken out against SOPA and now officially opposes it.
On the gaming front, three earlier supporters of the SOPA bill (Sony, Nintendo, and EA) have quietly removed themselves from the list of supporters on the official SOPA list. This comes right after Anonymous uploaded a video threatening an imminent attack on Sony’s infrastructure for their support of the bill. Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, and Taylor Swift are also listed as targets.
Whether the three gaming companies pulled their support because of the Anonymous warning is questionable; SOPA would in effect make gaming staples such as streaming, screenshots, and Lets Play! videos a felony, something that may hinder the promotion of games. Regardless though, Sony would most likely prefer not to take another beating.
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Business Insider
Digital Trends
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Sony, Nintendo, and EA are all members of the ESA which supports SOPA. They are simply hiding their support now. Sony’s movie and music divisions also still support it. GoDaddy can claim what it wants, but they co-authored the bill and if it passes they will be free from any causes of it while their competitors are fucked. In other words people should keep boycotting GoDaddy.
IMO, having one of the authors officially change their stance makes the Bill look that much worse. It was literally affecting their business, so it got some sort of message across. Hopefully, the others will follow suit as well, but unfortunately, I am not sure that their funds will be affected like godaddy’s. The best way to send a message to a company is to boycott their product and therefore affect their sales, but of course a lot of people need to follow suit with the boycott in order to make a difference.
We’ll see, but until the bill is rewritten to remove GoDaddy’s immunity I still support people’s boycott of it.
This is absolutely horrendous. Why must the government continue to make attempts at censorship? This is supposed to be a country that prides itself on it’s freedom. With every bill like this that gets proposed and supported by the legislature, I begin to lose a little faith in the government’s support of our rights.
Because our politicians are bought and paid for by lobbyists. Every single politician is a thief and liar.
^ That applies everywhere. The thing is that we can’t go around killing anyone and everyone on sight that might be a lobbyist or paid from them. It would be another witch hunt. After all, every revolution so far has resulted in a new corrupt system replacing the old corrupt system.
In the long run, it seems it’s our weakness as humans. Our greed denies us the possibility of doing great things as a species.
This bill is proof that we can’t trust people who barely know how to open an email to run our lives.