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GoDaddy Backs SOPA
redletterdave writes "Website hosting company GoDaddy has officially voiced its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Bill in 2012, which is designed to thwart movie and music piracy on the Internet by empowering copyright holders to effectively shut down websites or online services found with infringing material. If passed, the U.S. government could blacklist any website it deems in violation of copyright, which could range from a few posts in a Web forum to a few links sent in an e-mail. GoDaddy supports SOPA for 'protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. business and the American public from the harm that necessarily flows from the purchase of counterfeit products.' Yet, of the 142 companies that support the SOPA bill, GoDaddy is the only Internet company on the list."
Reddit users are planning to move domain names from GoDaddy to other registrars over this. /. readers also thought of a similar protest, but the 3 guys who still used GoDaddy were nowhere to be found.
Now that is a great domain (.bs). They should not have given it to a country but used it for more relevant purposes such as: politics.bs, ads.bs, sales.bs, and of course steveballmer.bs.
From an episode of the apprentice, Trump said "It only takes one stupid decision to ruin a company".
"GoneDaddy" has a nice ring to it xD
If those chicks were not so hot, no one would be pirating their commercials.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
You missed out stevejo.bs
ftfy.
Wealth is the gift that keeps on giving.
He's got bear hands!!! He might stand a chance the - unless they're panda bear hands!
No, he's right. No animals hunted anything before humans evolved. Before we came about, all animals lived in perfect harmony, regularly and merrily prancing around in happy, multi-species dance circles under beautiful rainbows while the sun smiled brightly on them through white, fluffy, happy clouds. They all subsisted on nothing but candy and good cheer, with cats and mice inviting each other over for tea parties while the hawks and owls regularly held friendly, joyous baseball games with the chipmunks and squirrels.
As soon as humans appeared, though, they all started killing each other because we brought evil vibes and thetans with us. Predators hunted down prey, small creatures lived in fear of their very innocent, cute lives, and all the baseball games became football matches (or, if you're across the pond, football riots). So it's all our own damn fault. Period.