yeah i don't know the true terror of sopa but many youtubers have been wanting people to fight this bill. i thought i show you how many compianies support sopa....
60 Plus Association
ABC
Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP)
American Bankers Association (ABA)
American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Americans for Tax Reform
Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States
Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies
Association of Talent Agents (ATA)
Beachbody, LLC
BMI
BMG Chrysalis
Building and Construction Trades Department
Capitol Records Nashville
CBS
Cengage Learning
Christian Music Trade Association
Church Music Publishers’ Association
Coalition Against Online Video Piracy (CAOVP)
Comcast/NBCUniversal
Concerned Women for America (CWA)
Congressional Fire Services Institute
Copyhype
Copyright Alliance
Coty, Inc.
Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB)
Council of State Governments
Country Music Association
Country Music Television
Creative America
Deluxe
Directors Guild of America (DGA)
Disney Publishing Worldwide, Inc.
Elsevier
EMI Christian Music Group
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EMI Music Publishing
Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
ESPN
Estée Lauder Companies
Fraternal Order of Police (FOP)
Gospel Music Association
Graphic Artists Guild
Hachette Book Group
HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Inc.
Hyperion
Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA)
International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE)
International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
International Union of Police Associations
L’Oreal
Lost Highway Records
Macmillan
Major County Sheriffs
Major League Baseball
Majority City Chiefs
Marvel Entertainment, LLC
MasterCard Worldwide
MCA Records
McGraw-Hill Education
Mercury Nashville
Minor League Baseball (MiLB)
Minority Media & Telecom Council (MMTC)
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
Moving Picture Technicians
MPA – The Association of Magazine Media
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
National Association of Prosecutor Coordinators
National Association of State Chief Information Officers
National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA)
National Center for Victims of Crime
National Crime Justice Association
National District Attorneys Association
National Domestic Preparedness Coalition
National Football League
National Governors Association, Economic Development and Commerce Committee
National League of Cities
National Narcotics Offers’ Associations’ Coalition
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National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA)
National Songwriters Association
National Troopers Coalition
News Corporation
Pearson Education
Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Pfizer, Inc.
Provident Music Group
Random House
Raulet Property Partners
Republic Nashville
Revlon
Scholastic, Inc.
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Showdog Universal Music
Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Nashville
State International Development Organization (SIDO)
The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO)
The Perseus Books Groups
The United States Conference of Mayors
Tiffany & Co.
Time Warner
True Religion Brand Jeans
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
UMG Publishing Group Nashville
United States Chamber of Commerce
United States Olympic Committee
United States Tennis Association
Universal Music
Universal Music Publishing Group
Viacom
Visa Inc.
W.W. Norton & Company
Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, L.P.
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Nashville
Wolters Kluewer Health
Word Entertainment
yeah, thats alot of supporters.
but here are some people off youtube that want others to join the fight to stop sopa...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t74BzyM7iis&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3iymuSPOI&feature=g-u&context=G2cd2dc6F...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82dIKa70DXU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
uh,yeah .....well. FIGHT SOPA !!!!!!!!!...i guess. its starts the 17th of next month
I don't know much about SOPA but isn't it a good thing...? (Although I suppose there is freedom of speech issues etc. surrounding it).
Mind you, with that many companies behind it, it appears to be the work of our good friends at Abstergo...
I understand the point of the bill, but it will be censoring the most free form of connection we have. I'm a person that doesn't give a flying f*ck about money, so I'm against it. It seems most supporters of this bill are big businesses, and that usually comes from the fear of losing money.
SOPA is a piece of shit, in short it basically gives them the right to for example shut down the entire Youtube, because there is one video of a person dancing to a song in the background.
these are the best summarys i found so far
this and this
give it a watch.
in my own words though, as far as i can understand it gives the big corporations full power of the internet.
you like ThatGuyWithGlasses? too bad, it's gone
you wanna watch a movie or game review? too bad, it's gone
Stabguy makes a new video? too bad, it's gone
etc
to add, VASH12349 and Tobuscus videos....F*CKING GONE !!!!!!!!!!
that should be enough to get people going
HELL EVEN THIS SITE COULD BE SHUT DOWN !!!!
Here are 2 reasons why this is disastrously bad.
1) No due process. The companies given the power to shut down any website they want will be doing it only on their own say-so, not with any precedents of legality or protections for free speech, etc.
2) National security. Hacking of the protocols that would be created to implement this power would give hackers the power to shut down anything. How much of anyone's government depends on the internet?
Complete destruction of the internet is probably the best-case scenario of this horrifyingly scary proposal. It must be fought vigourously by the 99%.
this fit pretty well with the situtation
When was it that the Congress was to discuss the bill?
jan 17th
"The best of intentions..."
The rest of that little lecture by Dr. Grant in Jurassic Park 3 sums up SOPA quite well.
Hollywood vs Silicon Valley. Lets see who wins!
I guess that I should share my opinions on this...
This Bill basically wants to stop the illegal streaming of copyrighted material from companies. Like it or not, these companies have a RIGHT (emphasis on this world) to report this problem, because there are losing millions and millions of dollars. Also, its rather unfair for the artist to not get paid for what he does - make music. It would be appropriate to pay the musician for the music he's entertaining you with, wouldn't you agree?
Well, it doesn't work like that. You see, the system is set up in such a way that everybody that have seen, touched, or created that album must be paid for their work. That includes the companies that rented out the recording studio, the graphic designer/photographer, the factory where it's being produced, the shipping of the albums, the shops where they display these albums, and of course, the artist themselves.
With that being said, I think that SOPA is a complete pile of steaming defecation. Why? Because ONLINE PIRACY HAS, AND ALWAYS WILL EXIST! It's the internet! Nothing the government can do about it! Look at piratebay. Has that been taken down? And for how long? It's still here, isn't it?
Most members of Congress that support this Bill even stated that they don't even know how the internet works. That's scary enough for me...
The internet is a series of tubes. The internet is not a big truck.
Poor Ted Stevens... a year and a half since he died in a plane crash and he still can't live down his "tubes" comment.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/01/13/sopa-protests-minecraft-firefall-reddi...
Boy, the gamers are finally starting to come out of the wood-works against this.