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Top Game Companies Nintendo, Sony, EA Drop Support for SOPA

by Max Eddy | 11:00 am, December 31st, 2011

A recent update to the Judiciary Committee’s list of top supporters for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, more commonly known as SOPA or “that horrible law in congress,” suggests that alliances may be shifting behind the scenes. The refreshed list shows that top game makers Nintendo, Sony, and EA have dropped their support the law.

Of course, things might not be what they seem. In the case of Sony, for instance, their music and video companies still remain firmly on the SOPA support list. Only the game-making division, Sony Electronics, pulled its name. For Nintendo and EA, while their names are gone from the list, they are still members of the Entertainment Software Association, which is also still on the list. Sony is also a member of the ESA. This network of inter-relation makes it hard to figure out where, in some cases, companies stand.

Also, simply taking their names off the list doesn’t necessarily indicate a change of heart for the companies. Perhaps the SOPA fight has become too polarized and too public for them to feel comfortable, or perhaps they found that the bill that emerged from the mark-up process was no longer attractive.

Regardless, it’s interesting to see how the bill and the support for it is changing as it edges closer to a vote. You can read the whole list of SOPA supporters here, which is a truly odd assemblage of companies. Who knew that Estée Lauder Companies, L’Oreal, Revlon, True Religion Brand Jeans, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship were so concerned about Internet piracy!

(Electronista via Techmeme, Business Insider)

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  • http://profiles.google.com/joint.striker joint striker

    From the cited companies only Ultimate Fighting Championship makes sense.
    They have been struggling for some time with the bittorrent community since their fights are heavily shared on the web. As for the others, it’s really very odd to see companies like L’Oreal, it makes you wonder…

  • Guest

    “Who knew that the Ultimate Fighting Championship were so concerned about Internet piracy!” – Except everyone that’s a hardcore fan of MMA. We all know all to well the constant efforts Dana and Zuffa put into activly hunting online streaming (as they’re mostly a PPV buisness after all).

  • http://twitter.com/TehGoldenRule TehGoldenRule

    I don’t support SOPA but hypocritical Google imposes SOPA on its users
    by requiring us to use real names, impeding our right to truly free
    speech and stomping on the primacy of the individual. Google wants its
    cake and eat it to. You and me are the cake and we are being eaten.

    Google doesn’t want to have to police its search results or who it sells
    ads to because of the enormous burden it would place on the very
    technology a search engine uses yet they have no problem imposing an
    enormous burden on its users who are forced to self-censor their true
    thoughts and freedom of speech and expression when posting how they
    really feel about issues.

    I want the good with the bad. I want meaningful discourse. I want to
    relinquish the chains of injustice and free information from its
    imprisonment. You can’t do that with big brother, big employer, or some
    psycho who doesn’t agree with you being able to stalk you in real life
    by doing a simple Bing search of your real name.

  • Hedgewise2

    Fantastic! Thanks for the list of companies that support SOPA. I shall ensure that in the future they have my full support :)


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