For those of you who have been hiding under a rock, you need to look up the “Stop Online Piracy Act.” And while your at it sign the petition here
Of the companies that were siding with the bill including GoDaddy, Nintendo, EA, Microsoft, and Sony, we’ve recently seen all of the companies taken their names off the list of supporters. Apperently supporting a bill that threatens censorship of the Internet isn’t really good for busness or security of the servers as Sony was threaten by hacker group “Anonymous.”
When asked, EA corporate told Joystiq this afternoon, “EA never expressed a position for or against SOPA.” Sony and Nintendo had yet to respond as of right now.
Note that not all of Sony’s branches have rescinded their support, as Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Music Nashville still appear on the list. Also, the Entertainment Software Association is still shown as a supporter — an organization which the aforementioned publishers (among others) belong to. Whether the group will remain on an endorsement list which exactly zero of its members appear on remains to be seen.
At this point I’d like to point out, even though we’re Canadian and we have our own problems with Internet Spy bill and Meter Billing issues, which by the way you can help fight at http://stopthemeter.ca. Gameitall.com does not support the Stop Online Piracy Act or any act of censorship for the Internet.