Electronic Arts, Nintendo and the gametak Sony have their support for the controversial sopa legislation is silently withdrawn. Previously pulled GoDaddy its support for the legislation after customers threatened their domain names to move.
On a list of organizations that the sopa legislation support, Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Sony Electronics – the gametak of Sony no longer. That discovered Business Insider. Initially supported the companies legislation. The publishers have their turn is not publicly disclosed. Moreover, to support three other Sony divisions, with music concerned the controversial law.
The controversial sopa law, which in the U.s. house of representatives is proposed, makes the copyright holders possible for websites to block on accusation of copyright infringement.
Possibly, the altered position of the publishers have something to do with the fierce criticism that the U.s. hosting provider GoDaddy over him. Many customers, including Wikipedia and the company behind Failblog, and Icanhascheezburger, threatened to a competitor. Decided GoDaddy his support for the law to withdraw. Nevertheless, according to some messages, a lot of customers switched to a competitor.
A large number of companies, such as MasterCard, News Corporation, Time Warner and Viacom support the legislation. The Business Software Alliance, on behalf of software companies, illegal software before, is a proponent. Among others, Microsoft, Apple, Intel and Dell are members of the BSA. Kaspersky got the beginning of this month from the BSA because of sopa position.
Microsoft is, despite his membership of the BSA opponent of the legislation, but does support a similar bill: the protect ip act, a strong sopa-like law in the U.s. senate, is proposed.