SOPA

[Ddrak]

I'll move the rant board off GoDaddy if there's enough support for people to live through the transition.

Dd

[Minute]

I'll move the rant board off GoDaddy if there's enough support for people to live through the transition.

Dd

+1 for this. SOPA is fucking shitastic & fuck GoDaddy for caving to this BS

[Taxious]

I'll move the rant board off GoDaddy if there's enough support for people to live through the transition.

I'm 100% behind this!

[Freecare Spiritwise]

+1

[Freecare Spiritwise]

Also remember that GoDaddy puts a hold on any domain you search for using their service. If you search for a domain, see that it's available, and go to buy it from someone else then you can't. Once you search for a domain with them you have to wait several days before it becomes available again. So just a reminder not to use them to do a WHOIS either if you intend to buy a domain.

[Freecare Spiritwise]

GoDaddy releases statement:

Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress.

"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation -- but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."

Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago. Jones has fought to express the concerns of the entire Internet community and to improve the bill by proposing changes to key defined terms, limitations on DNS filtering to ensure the integrity of the Internet, more significant consequences for frivolous claims, and specific provisions to protect free speech.

"As a company that is all about innovation, with our own technology and in support of our customers, Go Daddy is rooted in the idea of First Amendment Rights and believes 100 percent that the Internet is a key engine for our new economy," said Adelman.

In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet. In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.

"Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future," Jones said.

[Minute]

Yay Internet! Tuck Tail & Run Fuckers!

[Taxious]

Notice that they don't oppose it either though. I guess some big names have already moved away from them over this issue, including wikipedia and the icanhas sites. I love seeing the power that the internet has.

[Freecare Spiritwise]

I hope those big names don't come back. Being in favor of it didn't make much sense anyway: a technology-unfriendly technology company. I'm sure this shows somewhere on Minute's Venn diagram. I believe one of GoDaddy's recent hires worked for the federal government in something IP related.

SOPA Support Crumbling:

So we were just discussing how a bunch of companies who were listed by the US Chamber of Commerce as SOPA/PIPA supporters are demanding to be taken off the list, noting that, while they had agreed to a generic statement about fighting the sale of counterfeit goods, they don't support crazy broad legislation like SOPA/PIPA. It seems that others listed as "supporting" SOPA are scrambling to get off the list as well. The Judiciary Committee's official list had included a bunch of big name law firms as being in support of the law as well -- which is a little strange, since law firms usually don't take official positions on things like this. They may express opinions on such matters on behalf of clients, but outright supporting legislation is a different ballgame altogether.

A group of lawyers (most of whom have a long history of working with the entertainment industry) did send a letter to the Judiciary Committee to say that they agreed with Floyd Abrams' analysis of SOPA. That's it. They didn't say their firms supported SOPA -- and, in fact, there's an asterisk with the signatures noting that the names of their firms are solely for identification purposes. Yet the Judiciary Committee took those names anyway and put them on the supporters list. Expressing a legal opinion on a bill is extraordinarily different from supporting the bill. But the Judiciary Committee ignored that and listed them as supporters anyway.

From what we've heard, many of those law firms are not happy, and have been demanding removal from the Judiciary Committee's official list. Among those who have already complained/been taken off the official list are Morrison & Foerster, Davis Wright Tremaine, Irell & Manella, Covington & Burling. I would hope that the Judiciary Committee removes all the names and issues a rather public apology for blatantly including the names of firms who clearly made no statement in support of the proposed legislation. This is a pretty egregious move on the part of House Judiciary Committee staff. They're so eager to list supporters that they've been naming firms who do not support the bills. And then they've been using those claims to pretend there's widespread support...

[Harlowe]

Well this comes as no surprise - Study Confirms: News Networks Owned By SOPA Supporters... Are Ignoring SOPA/PIPA
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201201 ... pipa.shtml

[Harlowe]

Reddit's 12 hour shutdown in protest of SOPA . PIPA is also still out there and going to the floor I believe on Jan 24th.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenbe ... r=yahootix

It would really be something if a larger player did something as well like Wikipedia, Google, Facebook or Amazon (who have all threatened to do it). I honestly can't see Amazon doing it, because they are a merchant.

[Taxious]

It'd be grand if google shut down everything they owned just for 1 day.

[Freecare Spiritwise]

There's an Android app and Chrome plugin to tell you when you're visiting the web site of a company that supports SOPA.

[Ddrak]

There's an Android app and Chrome plugin to tell you when you're visiting the web site of a company that supports SOPA.

The Android App will also scan barcodes and tell you in the manufacturer supports SOPA.

Google or Wikipedia shutting down for a day over it would be completely awesome.

Dd

[Harlowe]

Wiki considering it...
http://techland.time.com/2012/01/12/sop ... n-mostpop1

[Torakus]

I don't support SOPA, but I still support moving off GoDaddy for the spineless, chickenshit way they caved into to nerd rage on the internet.

[Minute]

Right, they should have just held their course for a stupid fucking cause they had no reason to back in the first place & been completely bankrupt in a month. Idiot.

[Harlowe]

Yeah it's just nerd rage....

[Harlowe]

Well it's a step in the right direction.....I'm sure they've just changed their minds because of all the nerd rage not because it's shitty legislation.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/201 ... ct_ip.html

[Embar Angylwrath]

I'm glad Obama finally took a stand. The admin had been trying to walk the line between the two sides, but ended up piising off both.