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EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 31, 2011 @03:24AM from the revising-their-ok-cupid-profiles dept.

wbr1 writes "Electronista reports that Sony, Nintendo, and Electronic Arts have all pulled their support for SOPA, but have not issued any statements as to why. The house.gov list of SOPA supporters is here."

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Re:Concerned Women for America (CWA) by M.+Baranczak · 2011-12-31 04:01 · Score: 3, Funny

So JC was a pirate? I knew it! Arrrr!
Re:Concerned Women for America (CWA) by anonymov · 2011-12-31 04:35 · Score: 5, Funny

You know that "You wouldn't download a car" adage? Well, Jesus would and could.
He distributed illegal copies of bread and fish (see, no theft, just copying) depriving fishermen and bakers of their profits and circumvented DRM to upgrade water to wine bypassing the winery and proper grapes fermentation process.
Re:But The Really Didn't.... by geekmux · 2011-12-31 04:46 · Score: 4, Funny

"No! Not anymore! Really! We like you! Buy our crap!"
Witnesses say they were riding their shiny new signature-series GoDaddy Backpeddler 3000 a the time they overheard this...
MAD, published by Warner Bros. by tepples · 2011-12-31 06:29 · Score: 4, Funny

SOPA is the "hydrogen bomb" of censorship, and MAD is its solution.
The publisher of MAD is still on the list of supporters. MAD is published by EC Comics, a unit of DC Comics, a unit of Time Warner.