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Sony, Nintendo, EA Drop Piracy Act Support
Uros "Vader" Pavlovic
07:08 am EDT @ January 03rd, 2012
Major companies such as Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo and EA officially pulled support for the Stop Online Piracy Act, which was created to "promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes." The Act was introduced by the United States House of Representatives in October 2011 and has received massive backlash from a lot of people who argued that it is a threat to freedom of speech.
The legislation gives companies the power to slice revenue and shut down web sites at individual discretion. In addition it could be abused for censorship purposes.
The gaming giants withdrew not long after the hacking group Anonymous threatened to destroy Sony's network for supporting SOPA.
Mind you, it might be impertinent to mention that all three publishers are members of the Entertainment Software Association, which fully supports the bill. Also, Sony still supports the act through different music publishing arms (as reported by BI).
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Not to mention they are criminals.
ANONYMITY IS NOT A CRIME
It's a case of big laziness and the inability to locate the needle in the haystack, so they're going to set the whole thing on fire.
SOPA would make running aggregate sites like 4chan and Reddit, as well as forums, incredibly difficult, and that's just one problem it would pose. There are already programs circulating that would circumvent SOPA's DNS filters, so essentially the bill would be hurting the public while pirates still did their thing unhindered.
You just can't have copyright law being written and enforced out of the public eye, it's stupid and if you're one of the people saying it "won't be that bad", you're fucking stupid too.
However, this thing will hurt the average user in ways they're not even aware. Almost all of Youtube is in violation of SOPA right now. Anything that includes copyrighted material could be labelled in violation and subject to action from the Justice Department unless it's removed from the web.
Want to know the words to that song stuck in your head? Sorry, all those user vids featuring the lyrics while the song plays are in violation of SOPA. Want to check out KOTOR through a gameplay commentary before deciding whether to join? Sorry, in violation of SOPA. Want to watch a video of Tania the dancing bear doing its thing to Circus from Britney Spears? Sorry, in violation of SOPA.
This thing has the potential to destroy vast swaths of the internet, and is censorship plain and simple. They've just packaged it in such a way as to minimize the outcry. "Oh this is all about Piracy!" No, it's about control, and I for one do not trust the Justice Department not to use it like a hammer. Do you really want the likes of Arlen Specter and Eric Holder deciding what websites the American people have the RIGHT to access?