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Thankfully this thing is losing support

A quiet update to the list of Stop Online Piract Act supporters (PDF) has shown that Nintendo and Sony have backed away from the proposed bill. Both were originally endorsing the bill as of November but quietly removed themselves from the list sometime in the past month. Neither has acknowledged the change in attitude.

Game developer EA has also dropped its SOPA support.


Read more: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/12/30/nintendo.and.sony.rethink.unpopular.sopa.bill/#ixzz1i3n28MAW

http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/12/30/nintendo.and.sony.rethink.unpopular.sopa.bill/



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Good, very good. Now, does that mean Anonymous won't hack PSN or will they find another reason?



For companies with fans that are substantially more technically literate than average, supporting laws like this will (likely) do more damage through lost good will of your customers than any good they could do at protecting your IP ...



What is Microsoft's stance? I am just curious.



Yay! I'm happy Nintendo isn't supporting this, I hate piracy for what it does to the industry but SOPA isn't the way



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sethnintendo said:
What is Microsoft's stance? I am just curious.

MS backed out a while back but kept a low profile.



 

I dont understand why they would do this...



Good. Now what I would like to know, is how many companies are in favor of SOPA



 

 

 

I doubt this has anything to do with Anon's threat, buy boy are they gonna act like it was!



 

Anon didn't threaten Nintendo so I doubt Anon is the reason.....
It says Sony and Ninty dropped support over the last month so its not because of Anon either.

Anyway great to see support of this stupid bill drop. Just look at how much money GoDaddy is losing! Ha! Serves them right.