EA, Sony and Nintendo Withdraw SOPA Support - UPDATED

[Something Amyss]

No, it's just a regular drain on economy. My point was that this is the same bullheadedness. It's the case of dimwitted people trying to look important doing something they think is clever when it's not, because it can't work and it's stupid. But there's so much riding on it that they keep pushing out of sheer moronic determination.

Honestly, I can live with Star Wars as a drain on the economy. I can deal with stupid and ineffectual laws being handled by morons who don't know what the "on" button on a computer does.

But when it starts to actually hurt people, rather than being the usual Government waste....

 

[Jailbird408]

When will the government decide whether or not to pass the SOPA? I want to enjoy the last day of the internet ever.

 

[Akimoto]

Popcorn, anyone?

Salted please.

I wonder how they're going to enforce SOPA. After all it's not like the servers and ISP in other countries need to obey it.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

I understood that Nintendo wants to support some anti-piracy thingy, but I never could understand why SOPA in the form as it is.

Nintendo's games where the most pirated (right after the PC version, but I don't think that I need to write that, do I?). Mario galaxy 2 was 3 times more pirated than the most pirated xbox 360 game. 3 out of the top 5 pirated Wii games where Nintendo first party titles. Those are some big potential loses, but still not heavy enough for SOPA IMHO.
I have a feeling that N. was just desperate for SOME anti piracy laws, so they jumped on the first thing that came, without really thinking.

But Sony... why the fuck does Sony support something like the SOPA? They had like no potential loses compared to the other 3 platforms. Everything they lost was because of their retarded decisions.

[EDIT]
Yeah, I just remembered that Sony has more than just the PS3. Sony is also into music. lol
Nevermind. They also had some reasons to support some anti-piracy laws... but still... same as Nintendo, they shouldn't support SOPA as it is.
[/EDIT]

I just hope that they withdraw because they realized it's bad, not because of the thing that happened with GoDaddy.

@Akimoto
They don't really need to have a direct impact on other servers outside their country.
Just enough to have Google blacklist your site (which they have to because google is in the USA.
If that's not enough, US citizen won't be able to see your site, and no matter what people think, the US is a HUGE country with many people using the internet. Unless your site is just some local site, it will be affected by less visitors.
There is also the problem with ads. Less ads, less visitors, lower overall income. Less profitable sites. Many sites will have problems with keeping them self up, not to speak about some profit.
There is also the problem that most country's leaders are just some bunch of idiots who follow everything that the USA says and does. They will, sooner or later, make the same shit.

 

[FalloutJack]

Popcorn, anyone?

Salted please.

I wonder how they're going to enforce SOPA. After all it's not like the servers and ISP in other countries need to obey it.

One of the main flaws in the plan is, in fact, feasibility. And once again, that is entirely in line with the Project Star Wars analogy. Not to say that in this case the technology isn't ready for it. It's that they {A} don't personally know how to do it and {B} haven't really got the manpower and the resources for it. The internet is HUGE, like another universe. It's insane to pull something like this.

 

[punipunipyo]

Sony needs to wake up and smell the coffee... and EA should just BURN, and all the sub-companies of EA should just move to Activation, (Call of Duty: Battle Field,DoomSpace).

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Capcom is part of this SOPA as well.

This past year they've just shot themselves in the foot over and over again and now this.

They still have feet?

But seriously folks, GoDaddy hasn't dropped it's support at all. They're just being more quiet about it.

 

[Awexsome]

The only thing that really matters is the support of the corporations into the politician's campaigns.

The sad part is we can't boycott everyone involved because then we'd be boycotting videogames. But hopefully after the Go Daddy backlash was so severe it won't get any more supporters than it already has. Just gotta keep raising hell about it. Best way for the corporations to win is to have it turn into just some bill passed through congress that nobody cares about like the most of them. Can't let people forget about it.

 

[Pat8u]

wait Ive seen this sopa bill before ealier this year X did a video about it and heaps of people dismissed it but it was basically the same thing as this one

 

[jp201]

I hope people realize that SOPA is not the main issue here. It is the Protect IP act that will inevitably come back to senate. I expect SOPA to fall easily and when people compare SOPA to the protect IP act it will seem much better and will have much better chance of passing. I hope people are not to concerned about this bill as it was not meant to pass but to create such an extreme representation that compared to protect IP it is nothing.





DO NOT LET THAT FOOL YOU BOTH ARE BAD!

 

[Soviet Steve]

But seriously folks, GoDaddy hasn't dropped it's support at all. They're just being more quiet about it.

Supposedly they're written into the law by name as being exempt from SOPA.

 

[Strazdas]

the companies are trolling us again.

 

[FamoFunk]

I am not surprised by anyone who's on the list.

Popcorn, anyone?

Chuck us some Doritos and a comfy chair.

 

[Gunner 51]

If these companies are slowly being turned away from SOPA, surely that's a good thing, right?
If pressure is maintained, the companies will drop all support of it. (I hope.)

 

[Andy Chalk]

"this could very well be nothing more than an attempt to score some points with the rabble while letting its industry association do the dirty work"

That's kind of what I think. It's so much easier to shout that you're going to do something, and get the credit, than to actually follow through. Besides, of course they support it, when have game companies ever NOT exploited people for profit?

 

[Continuity]

Of course there is the third option, i.e. that is is simply an insignificant clerical change. Unless they come out and say specifically that they no longer support SOPA then they clearly do via the ESA, the fact that they're not listed individually is trivial and probably not even a conscious move... after all, why list yourself individually if you're part of the ESA and that is listed?

 

[AhumbleKnight]

There are a lot of Supporters on that list that make me wonder why they have any interest in SOPA at all. Seriously, why do major fashion/skin care brands (eg. Estée Lauder Companies, L?Oreal) have any interest in this?

Having a list of supports three pages long sure looks good, but when over should have no interest in this one way or the other and the other half are broken into relgious groups that probably what the internet turned off all togther and massive corporations that are all owned by the same few people...

Edit: the NFL? WTF^^

 

[BlackWidower]

Sony's not behind it anymore!? Well Sony Music certainly is!

Here's the thing. This bill should not be taken seriously unless they get a big internet company behind it. I see a lot of entertainment companies, but not a single internet company. You know the internet!? The exact thing this bill affects!? Not a single company who's business revolves around the internet is behind this bill? That's how you know we have a problem.

 

[BlackWidower]

There are a lot of Supporters on that list that make me wonder why they have any interest in SOPA at all. Seriously, why do major fashion/skin care brands (eg. Estée Lauder Companies, L?Oreal) have any interest in this?

They don't want people to steal their commercials. Yeah I don't know either.

Edit: the NFL? WTF^^

Well that makes sense. The NFL broadcasts the games, they don't want it posted online.

 

[AhumbleKnight]

Of course there is the third option, i.e. that is is simply an insignificant clerical change. Unless they come out and say specifically that they no longer support SOPA then they clearly do via the ESA, the fact that they're not listed individually is trivial and probably not even a conscious move... after all, why list yourself individually if you're part of the ESA and that is listed?

My guess is numbers.