EA, Sony and Nintendo Withdraw SOPA Support - UPDATED

[HyenaThePirate]

This means nothing. They did it so they can OPENLY say to all their gaming customers "We didn't want this! We're on your side! Continue to buy our products!"

All the while, they know the ball is now rolling, the proper palms have been greased. Thing is, they don't need their "Open" support anymore. That was just to get things going. Now they can back off, save face, and pretend to be a wounded party.

 

[Spartan448]

Has anyone actually looked at some of the names on that list of supporters? Is anyone sure it isn't just a list of random associations? Reasoning:

Minor League Baseball and MLB : What business do they have supporting internet legislation?

Phizer: They are a pharmacutical company and therefore have no more right to support internet
legislation than Umbrella did to make zombies.

Tiffany & Co.: Need I say more?

National Narcotics Offers' Associations' Coalition: They were probably the ones who gave the drugs to the people who drafted SOPA in the first place.

The NFL: Given that the Super Bowl's commercial lineup includes commercials from many groups that would be negatively effected by SOPA, this is also a strange endorsement.

L'Oreal: Come on. A Skin care company should not be saying ANYTHING about the internet.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters: Yes, let's have the truck drivers decide everything.

ESPN: See my reasoning for the MilB, MLB, and NFL.
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Need I say more?

Also, surprised that with MLB, MiLB, and NFL presences on that list, I'm surprised the NHL and other sports are dissenting with the ranks.

 

[chadachada123]

There's a common saying for this. "A few bad apples are ruining it for everyone else".

So, get rid of the bad apples, then we'll talk.

So you honestly believe that if you live in a neighbourhood where someone was murdered, you deserve by default to be treated like a murderer?

Come now. Turning Americans into felons without appeal is not something justified under the punishment of a "few bad apples."

If the murder could occur anonymously and was prevalent throughout the neighbourhood, damned straight. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Give the industry reason to trust you and they will. They aren't going to take all the risk in creating a product and just roll over when people don't buy it. If people are enjoying the creation, they'd have better paid for it.

Maybe if they had affordable prices for games without DLC that was clearly made SOLELY to soak money from suckers, people would be inclined to actually pay for games. MW3 is one giant DLC pack, and is absolutely not worth $60 by itself, let alone with the $15 DLC they'll be having basically every other month. That's the reason that no one gives a rat's ass about the qualms that publishers have, because they're too greedy to realize that their greed is the cause of their troubles to begin with.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I don't understand how such a law could possibly pass in the USA. Isn't America supposed to be a nation where freedom to do anything and everything is a "God given right" and trumps everything else? Government censorship of the web in America...wow. Maybe "United States" should become "People's Republic".

BTW, has noone told the USA about the existence of proxy servers?

 

[Erttheking]

EA withdrew their support from SOPA? Good, now I can buy Mass Effect 3 without feeling guilty.