Regarding SOPA and GT planet

Only the music subsidiaries it seems.

EDIT: Oh, it seems I'm late with EA (not that it changes my opinion of them one iota) as they've rescinded their position in support of SOPA; I guess they figured they already have enough hate and bad publicity.

Hope I'm not banned from an EA game for saying this either.
 
Paul Tassi, a contributor to Forbes has this movement going on at Facebook.

Seems the White House has already flipped off the current state of SOPA, but even so, support the movement anyway.
 
I have an idea. How bout we change all the smilies to the censored smiley. But instead of the bar across the mouth saying "censored", it says "SOPA".
 
Coxis
Oh lordy. I hope this doesn't involve flying a plane through a government building/murder suicide or something like that. :scared:

EDIT:

I was making an allusion to the small plane flown into the IRS some time ago, I completely forgot about 9/11. I meant no disrespect of course.
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I know the one your talking about, I totally got what you were saying with out jumping to 9/11. The U.S. gov't seems to be out of control now days first with the National Defense Authorization Act and now this one again that I've been hearing about for some time over the past couple years.
 
Unless we're going to spend millions on enforcement of something like this; even the bill passing won't matter. My point in case: The piracy and copyright laws in the U.S. that already exist. If you download something illegally, you should be hauled off to court and fined/jailed. If you tape/copy a TV show and watch it with someone other than those in your household, same basic idea (dissemination without written consent).

I'm betting that millions of Americans, among other nationalities, have done one of those two things multiple times, if not in a month--- a year, and I bet the fraction of those that get brought up on charges are only a minute fraction.

Granted, this is not the oversight the U.S. needs, it's a bill that's pointless and unenforceable(with practicality).
 
Grayfox
SOPA will die if it passes.

It will effect the economy and the government will have no choice but to remove it.
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I doubt they will lose money, lots of extra income from less piracy will outweigh any money lost from closing a few mostly non profit websites.

There's a thread to discuss it here.
 
Jordan
I'm very much aware of and concerned about SOPA, and I strongly support the sites which are "going black" to raise awareness about the issue. There are severe consequences for GTPlanet and sites like it if the bill was to pass.

Though I won't be "turning off" GTPlanet on the 18th, I am considering other ways of expressing my opposition.
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Admirable stance, Jordan, and a very appropriate award! Guess there's many of us here with you on this.
 
Robin.
Wikipedia has now decided to join the protest, definitely the biggest player to show their support so far, I'm sure if Facebook did it boy that would get attention!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585
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Doesn't facebook give information to Government agencies like Google, if so it would be counter productive to Facebook.

However, I get your point though and you make a good one.
 
I like the idea of changing every smiley put down to a "🤬" smiley 👍


I mean, 🤬
 
Owen.C93
I think turning all avatars to a anti SOPA image might be cool, everyone sees it and it's annoying enough for people to want to know more about but also it's not going to hamper anybody's ability to use the site.
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I think that's a good idea.👍

I'm not direct affected by SOPA, but in short or long this wave will swap over to europe and further.
Being able to "silence" people, with what means so ever is the first step to full control of a government or people with enough power e.g. Rupert Murdoch.

Btw here a page with all necassary information to support with your own page, or twitter account and all supporters so far
http://sopastrike.com/
 
Jordan I know you support the blackout sites, but have you reconsidered blacking out GTP in protest as well? This is a pretty huge forum and it would help to spread the message among the GT faithful...especially if they knew their favourite site would be out of order if this stupid legislation passes.
 
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Didn't Obama just say he doesn't support it or something? I'm pretty sure he opposes it.
 
Hmmmmmm. It seems a bit off to me :lol:

People- Sopa, BOOOOOOO we do not like that
Obama- Neither do I, see what I can do.
People (voters) - Yeyyyyyy go Obama :D

Nobody else thought this?

And no not wikipedia?!? How will year 9's C+P their homwork! :O
 
If FaceBook did this and other sites like Twitter etc do it I think it would send a message.
 
symustafa1996
Been doing a lot of stuff against this on sites like 4chan, 9gag and Funnyjunk......
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Funnyjunk is sadly a very good reason to support SOPA, because they remove the copryrights of others' work and put their own logo on images, which isn't remotely funny nor respectful at all. We're not only talking about large publishing houses or media conglomerates, these are mostly independent blog/comics that make just some spare change on the side, while Funnyjunk rakes in ad revenue by sheer theft.

Anyhow, that's my two cents on that matter...
 
Pupik
Funnyjunk is sadly a very good reason to support SOPA, because they remove the copryrights of others' work and put their own logo on images, which isn't remotely funny nor respectful at all. We're not only talking about large publishing houses or media conglomerates, these are mostly independent blog/comics that make just some spare change on the side, while Funnyjunk rakes in ad revenue by sheer theft.

Anyhow, that's my two cents on that matter...
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Yeah but their neglect of copyright laws shouldn't affect those like Wikipedia who abide by them and use them as sources.
 
I'm not sure a GTP blackout would be a good idea, considering all the international users. With Wikipedia, there are different sections for different languages. Obviously the English version is most popular, but it is used mostly by native English speakers, most of those American. SOPA and PIPA are American issues (though similar things have happened elsewhere) and therefore Wiki will be shutting down the English site. But here, you're just bound to piss off a bunch of international users who have no say in American legislation.

Perhaps an official statement to the the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Federal government, or joining a coalition with other notable websites and technology companies.
 
There is something that keeps rounding around my head, the SOPA thing is an American thing right? Therefore it affects everything that is on the US(I suppose). But if GTP locates its server in the UK for example, it will be outside SOPA's reach right?

There was an article I read a few days back(no source, but I think it was Gamasutra) that said that SOPA was tweak so it doesn't block the DNS from foreign sites, if this is true then what SOPA is doing is migrating all those websites(and money) outside the US.

I wonder, if SOPA passes(which I don't think given opposition from the white house) then GTP would be relocated or closed?

I also read a few posts back that GTP could be closed, however relocating it doesn't seem like a bad option in my opinion.
 
Everyone is affected by this. Not just US residents; the only reason it's a identified as a US problem is because we have major say in the operation of the internet, or something to that degree.

Just because you live outside of, or your web server is based outside of immediate US territory is irrelevant.
 
It's like.. US residents and all US-based websites. That's what I heard anyway.

But I sure as hell hope GTP doesn't close. I have a ton of stuff here I don't want to just disappear.
 
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