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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-12-31 21:50
Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Sony Electronics — some of the largest video game companies in the world — have all pulled their support for an online bill that could encourage censorship online, according to an updated list of supporters of the bill.
Those three companies all supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) when it first entered Congress, according to a report from Joystiq in November.
SOPA, along with the PROTECT IP act in the Senate, give content-producing companies the right to order a take down for a website that they believe is infringing on a copyright. If you even host links to content that infringes on a copyright, you have to take it down.
If not, the copyright owner can request that the infringing site has its advertising and transaction revenue cut off. Or it can request that a domain name — like businessinsider.com — be blacklisted and rendered inaccessible.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-largest-game-companies-in-the-world-have-dropped-their-support-for-a-bill-the-internet-hates-2011-12?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Al
Sony Music is still an ass though
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Compass wrote on 2011-12-31 21:56
They pulled their names off the list but the still support it.
Nintendo and EA are members of the Entertainment Software Association, and that organization is still listed in support. So there's still lobbying in support of this bill done on behalf of all three
That's from the kotaku article.
And as you said Sony has Sony Music
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Piero wrote on 2011-12-31 21:56
I heard Sony was threatened by those Anon people.
Sony was being stupid anyways.
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Joker wrote on 2011-12-31 22:00
I sensea disturbance in the force.... Nintendo has brought us some good titles.. but mannn their so fkin high on their horse... they won't even let people distribute game ideas even when they HAVE a section or had 1 for game ideas.... no really it was fked up...
anyways i also sense an abuse of power if this bill passes
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Hiccup wrote on 2011-12-31 22:03
Quote from Compass;715405:
They pulled their names off the list but the still support it.
That's from the kotaku article.
And as you said Sony has Sony Music
trollololol
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Zid wrote on 2011-12-31 22:13
Sony Music is a tougher nut to crack anyway.
Also, ESA. So nothing has really been accomplished here.
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Rydian wrote on 2011-12-31 23:15
Yeah it's just for appearances given the huge backlash, they still want it.
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lightychan wrote on 2011-12-31 23:55
8v.... oh dear.
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Cynic wrote on 2011-12-31 23:59
What's sad is a considerable amount of people will actually buy this crap.
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Compass wrote on 2012-01-01 02:09
I don't think they know how badly this can hurt the video game industry.
Can't companies sue (or whatever it is they can do) people for giving their games bad reviews? I mean if they can take down let's plays and gameplay videos I'm pretty sure they can do online video reviews too.