The Entertainment Software Association has released a new statement regarding SOPA and PIPA now that we've stirred things around a bit. And would you look at that: the support for these proposals have been pulled.
From the beginning, ESA has been committed to the passage of balanced legislation to address the illegal theft of intellectual property found on foreign rogue sites. Although the need to address this pervasive threat to our industry's creative investment remains, concerns have been expressed about unintended consequences stemming from the current legislative proposals. Accordingly, we call upon Congress, the Obama Administration, and stakeholders to refocus their energies on producing a solution that effectively balances both creative and technology interests. As an industry of innovators and creators, we understand the importance of both technological innovation and content protection and are committed to working with all parties to encourage a balanced solution.
Compare that to what the ESA said earlier this month when they pledged support for SOPA. Nice moves, gents. Not wishy-washy at all! I take it you weren't liking the idea of an E3 boycott.
So what happened here? Did the ESA get scared? Or did they wimp out after SOPA/PIPA were shelved. Or! Or maybe the finally saw the full potential impact of these proposals. Hmm. Nah.
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3:35 PM on 01.20.2012
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Shaka.
Laka.
Either way, yeah, very floppy on the issues ESA. Good job keeping the industry classy.
Oh wait, their buddies at the RIAA and MPAA didn't have a hand in it. That's probably why.
Which means OPEN is good and should be implemented to reinforce the DMCA a little.
If not who will penetrate Holmes' bum?
Tell you the truth, thats a much better way to see it. I honestly don't trust them to keep toting this line. Once the bills come back to the table in some form of jellied way again, I'm expecting the ESA to flop right back over on its views.
If developers and the press boycott E3, it s damaging blow to the ESA's funding for the next year.
They already have that. It's called PAX.
Horrible horrible people.
You took the words right out of my mouth
Well.
Okay, as long as they are against it.
Thats the only reason I ever pull out anyway, I aint payin no child support!
*Nuremberg trials happen*
Good job everyone.
Like Armoured Badger said, I would have respected them more without the cheap ploy.
Of course, what these old ignorant men don't realize is that they're not as smart as they think. They never took into account that the rest of us, the people whom SOPA/PIPA would have most affected, know more on the subject than they do because (surprise!) we use the internet in our daily lives.
Their calls to "summon the nerds" to get the particulars they couldnt get straight; their claiming "listen, I'm no nerd here, but I'm pretty sure we have to do this"; their apparent disdain for anyone with any practical knowledge of how the internet works proved one important thing: these "nerds" they keep referring to are all of us. From the guy running a server out of his garage, to the 12 year old girl recording Lady Gaga songs on YouTube.
The general internet using population was proven vastly more knowledgeable than the dopes who drew up these bills, and the okie-doke-cash-chuckers like the ESA who supported them. Now we get to watch The Great Back Peddling of the Dummies circa 2012 as these people become vexed by how something could make so much sense to them, people who are admittedly internet-stupid, could be unanimously regarded as retarded by internet users, who must be far less smart than they are by virtue of the fact that they're successful businessmen and legislators.
Don't lie in your spin. If this were true, you wouldn't have supported these unbalanced bills
Hooray for losing your place in a sentence while writing! Still smarter than SOPA supporters.
I hope none of us forget this and E3 gets hit severely as a result.
RON PAUL 2012
The Protect Children Children From Internet Pornographers Act
Who could possibly be against protecting kids from porn?
http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/1225/24273/The-Blackout-is-Over-What-Now