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Update: ALL the law firms have been removed from the list. http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rogue%20Websites/List%20of%20SOPA%20Supporters.pdf http://judiciar

by dpe82 15y ago

Update: ALL the law firms have been removed from the list. http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rogue%20Websites/List%20of%20SOPA%20Supporters.pdf http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rogue%20Websites/List%20of...

redthrowaway 15y ago
Excellent. That's a few down. I think the next one to focus on should be the Entertainment Software Association. It strikes me that, like the BSA, many of these companies would only have agreed to support some broad, generic, fight against piracy and not SOPA in particular. Let's put the pressure on them to withdraw their support. Also, the UFC might be a good target. I know Joe Rogan has spoken out against SOPA, so he might be a good place to start.
- chernevik 15y ago
  I have to wonder about the various state and local organizations on the list. Do mayors and state chief information officers really have a position on SOPA? Maybe the SOPA opposition lobbyists can reach out to these organizations and find the details of their "support", and whom these groups really represent. Then maybe tech industry types can reach into whatever state and local connections they have to have conversations with the state / local officer represented here. If those supports are soft, and a couple of folks call from the field to ask what's going on, they too may melt off the list. EDITED TO ADD: Don't know the industry, but entities with showbiz relations may be feeling pressure from the studios to be supportive. They need licensing deals with the studios, no? Pressuring them to choose sides might not be productive -- might be enough to urge them to offer nothing but transparently pro-forma support.
  - cdcarter 15y ago
    Your best bet would probably be to get the unions to pull back support. But doing that will be hard.
    - chernevik 15y ago
      Zero probability, for most of them, as they're employed by the movie industry. They're worried about erosion of their wage base, and (on this matter) their relationships with the studios.

by dpe82 15y ago

redthrowaway 15y ago

Excellent. That's a few down. I think the next one to focus on should be the Entertainment Software Association. It strikes me that, like the BSA, many of these companies would only have agreed to support some broad, generic, fight against piracy and not SOPA in particular. Let's put the pressure on them to withdraw their support. Also, the UFC might be a good target. I know Joe Rogan has spoken out against SOPA, so he might be a good place to start.

chernevik 15y ago
I have to wonder about the various state and local organizations on the list. Do mayors and state chief information officers really have a position on SOPA? Maybe the SOPA opposition lobbyists can reach out to these organizations and find the details of their "support", and whom these groups really represent. Then maybe tech industry types can reach into whatever state and local connections they have to have conversations with the state / local officer represented here. If those supports are soft, and a couple of folks call from the field to ask what's going on, they too may melt off the list. EDITED TO ADD: Don't know the industry, but entities with showbiz relations may be feeling pressure from the studios to be supportive. They need licensing deals with the studios, no? Pressuring them to choose sides might not be productive -- might be enough to urge them to offer nothing but transparently pro-forma support.
- cdcarter 15y ago
  Your best bet would probably be to get the unions to pull back support. But doing that will be hard.
  - chernevik 15y ago
    Zero probability, for most of them, as they're employed by the movie industry. They're worried about erosion of their wage base, and (on this matter) their relationships with the studios.