Monday, January 2nd 2012
Nintendo, Sony, EA Withdraw Support for SOPA: Too Little Too Late?
Video game industry majors Nintendo, Sony, and EA dropped financial support for the passage of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), as an increasing number of the bill's proponents are feeling the sting of bad PR as a result of their endorsement of the bill. Last month we've seen domain registrar GoDaddy suffer a mass exodus of tens of thousands of domains to its competitors due to its initial endorsement of SOPA, which it later withdrew seeing the public outcry that has some real implications on its business.
This latest withdrawal from Nintendo, Sony, and EA appears to be similar, a knee-jerk response to the bad PR each of SOPA's endorsers are getting. The updated list of the bill's endorsements (read: here) shows the three companies to be missing from it (they were earlier listed). SOPA has been widely criticized as being overkill, too wide-ranged, and too vaguely written to tackle online piracy. Critics say it is peppered with loopholes that make censorship by corporations and governments easy. Think of it as using a tactical nuclear strike to take down a pillbox. Sure, the pillbox will be obliterated, but you end up destroying everything unrelated to it in a very wide area surrounding it.
Source:
Business Insider
This latest withdrawal from Nintendo, Sony, and EA appears to be similar, a knee-jerk response to the bad PR each of SOPA's endorsers are getting. The updated list of the bill's endorsements (read: here) shows the three companies to be missing from it (they were earlier listed). SOPA has been widely criticized as being overkill, too wide-ranged, and too vaguely written to tackle online piracy. Critics say it is peppered with loopholes that make censorship by corporations and governments easy. Think of it as using a tactical nuclear strike to take down a pillbox. Sure, the pillbox will be obliterated, but you end up destroying everything unrelated to it in a very wide area surrounding it.
34 Comments on Nintendo, Sony, EA Withdraw Support for SOPA: Too Little Too Late?
Of course, you can still try to hide it with clothes. :p
no respect 1---------------------10 respect
Sony and EA +0.4
Up from 0Zing!
Of course they were always going to "withdraw" support. They don't want to be seen as the bad guys but will always give that appreciate nod to those that make it go through.
Christian Music Trade Association
Church Music Publishers’ Association
Makes me laugh to think about religious people stealing christian music.....:laugh:
How's that for irony?
I am wondering if it is one of our own agencies intentionally creating panic in order to give the government the backing they are looking for to push all of the internet censorship into place. that is their favorite trick after all...
Hey, that video sounds like something out of a movie!