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While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge
by solipsist 15y ago
While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies?
http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Supporters.pdf http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
- shmerl 15y agoIt's good to be distanced from this kind of crowd ;)
- solipsist 15y agoYes, but I was rather inquiring about whether it was even possible to do so. That list is huge and most likely growing. One of the companies on the list is McGraw-Hill Education. I have to use their products at my school - how do I get around that?
- phaus 15y agoIt doesn't really matter which textbook manufacturer you get your books from. They are all morally bankrupt institutions. The entire textbook industry is a scam. I love how you can pick nearly any topic in almost any subject(especially computer science) and find an amazing book for free, or for about $60, yet every textbook my school uses gets < 2 stars on amazon and costs $150. My "favorite" was a biology book written by a guy with a B.S. in journalism. He published the book years ago and every year he releases a new edition with the chapters out of order.
- praptak 15y ago> I have to use their products at my school - how do I get around that? Be a proud pirate.
- wtallis 15y agoBuy used textbooks whenever possible. If you're stuck in one of those situations where there's a new edition every year, make sure to ask the instructor if you can use the previous edition.
- dchest 15y agoBoth MasterCard and VISA are there. What to do? :(
- a_a_r_o_n 15y agoSpend less.
- dchest 15y agoHow is this relevant? I don't spend much, and use cash in real life. But I need a card for online purchases for my business (hosting, etc.) and for access to my bank accounts in a different country. Maybe I can replace most of it with wire transfer, but Amazon, Rackspace, etc. won't accept it.
- jackowayed 15y agoYou can give Amazon direct access to your checking account: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=15399401&tag=duckduckgo-d-20 http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1...
- dchest 15y agoThanks. It's ACH-enabled U.S. checking account only, so won't work for me, but maybe others will find this useful.
- a_a_r_o_n 15y agoIt's a compromise. If VISA and MC bother you in this context, use them less. You can't practically eliminate them, but you can, if you choose, reduce their use.
- blahedo 15y agoDiscover? I've been a happy customer of theirs since the 90s, and their coverage has gotten near total within the US. Sparser in other countries, though.
- pg 15y agoActually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.
- solipsist 15y agoOk, awesome! Glad to see that much commitment.
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- TheIronYuppie 15y agopg - this is bad ass. Way to put your money where your mouth is.
- middayc 15y agoAwesome. More people with influence should (be brave enough to) take their part of action if they think something sucks!
- jimmyjim 15y agoJust wondering here -- would you go so far as to consider the domain registrars of YC hopefuls when going through the application process, or would their choice hold essentially zero weight in whether they get accepted or not?
- intenex 15y agoI doubt it'll become a topic of conversation what your registrar is..but if it does happen to come up and you happen to say GoDaddy, judging from pg's post above the answer is probably yes, he will hold it against you :) Funding a company that supports a company that supports SOPA is just one step away from supporting a company that supports SOPA...which in turn is just one step away from supporting SOPA. Scary, isn't it?
- antr 15y ago
- unreal37 15y agoThat list would be a whole lot shorter if you removed the names of Law Firms. Why are they even on there? And the Congressional Fire Service supports SOPA? That's "stretching it" for supporters.
- MBlume 15y agoSOPA encourages litigation -- of course the law firms would be salivating for it.
- greyfade 15y agoI'm sure going to try. I only have dealings with GoDaddy and Comcast; and while I can't get away from Comcast, I'm going to do my damnedest to get away from GoDaddy.
- dclowd9901 15y agoSo glad I'm only seeing Marvel Comics and not DC. I don't think I could give up my Vertigo graphic novels.
- abrahamsen 15y agoDC is part of Warner Bros. which is part of Time Warner, which is on the list.
- seanp2k2 15y agoYes, no problem. F*ck every last one of those companies. The only two that I still have no real choice but to support would be Comcast because of my local ISP monopoly (I can get 512K DSL from SBC [ATT] or 100mbit Comcast...not really what I'd call a "choice") and MasterCard because my credit union does not offer debit cards via AmEx.
- mikeknoop 15y agoWhat are the incentives for Visa and Mastercard to support SOPA?
- rdouble 15y agoOnline media purchases incur a lot of Visa and Mastercard transactions.
- jgw 15y agoThe one I found most perplexing was Tiffany & Co.
- dorianj 15y agoTiffany and other luxury brands believe SOPA will reduce counterfeiting websites.
- GHFigs 15y agoI suspect one reason is that they get process a lot of chargebacks when people's fake Viagra and counterfeit NFL jerseys get seized by Customs before delivery.
- FireBeyond 15y agoExcept they make out like bandits in that case. Hefty fees to the merchant, jacked up transaction fees...
- zethraeus 15y agoHmm. last.fm's parent corp. CBS is on that list. I wonder what those guys think of the bill.
- bobwebb 15y agoThey already pay the licencing fees to the respective music labels, so if SOPA gets passed they'll be one of the few legal music streaming sites remaining. If SOPA is used to full effect then it's plausible they could get a larger market share.