GoDaddy Backs SOPA

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:37PM from the if-you-don't-have-anything-good-to-say dept.

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."

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Reddit Boycotts GoDaddy by souravzzz · 2011-12-22 17:43 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:It's about the prices by brusewitz · 2011-12-22 18:33 · Score: 4, Funny

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.
Re:It's about the prices by perryizgr8 · 2011-12-22 21:15 · Score: 5, Funny

You missed out stevejo.bs
ftfy.

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Re:GoDaddy by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-22 23:43 · Score: 3, Funny

He's got bear hands!!! He might stand a chance the - unless they're panda bear hands!