Notch wrote: No sane person can be for SOPA. I don't know if we're sane, but we are strongly, uncompromisingly against SOPA, and any similar laws. Sacrificing freedom of speech for the benefit of corporate profit is abominable and disgusting.
Tomorrow, January 18, we will close down www.minecraft.net, www.mojang.com and www.playcobalt.com in a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Read more about the protest on reddit’s blog, Wikimedia Foundation, WordPress’ blog and Destructoid.
(Minecraft and Cobalt login servers will still be available.)
honorfull!
Notch still rocks!
Im absolutely with you.
Nice too see studios like Bungie, Mojang and etc to fight against this ridiculous bill.
Guys I'm pretty sure its over look Blisteredthumbs.net
I've also been hearing on the escapists and other places
wrong. it is shelved, not over.
not only that, but this is also about PIPA. that is just as harmful as SOPA.
Well.. damn...
All credit to Mojang for making a stand on such an important issue. Thank you!
And SOPA is just "on hold" which means they can bring it back at any time and the Senate is moving forward with PIPA. Those who want to censor the internet are pretending it is over to see if they can trick people into not watching and not taking a stand against them.
america is going from mony crisis to freedome crisis
as evidenced by Mojang protesting this bill, it is not just america that would be affected. This bill will affect the entire internet, and thus, the world.
Honestly this is something common in many forms.In europe (where i live) we have issues with the Britian forbiding our traditions and in other countries too such as,no bullfighting,no winter pig killing for eating (my personal country's tradition where you grow a pig old and afterwords killing it in it's last 1/2 years of life which isn't that much slaughtering considering we actually TAKE CARE of the pig through almost all of it's life).SOPA's general ideas are to try and turn the internet into a place for marketing only,some companies are being sneaky and supporting SOPA so they can be the ONLY ones which is pretty shamefull.I for one would go on an insane torrent frenzy if this bill somehow gets close to winning,no one shall destroy my favourite websites and such!
REVOLT! go notch!!! =D
Down with SOPA and PIPA!
(BTW. In polish "pipa" means pussy :D)
Everybody should have the freedom of speech, a bill that takes away that right makes me sick. Good job for revolting against these sick minded people who want nothing but their own personal gain. I do live in Canada, but this damn bill affects us too!
Good choice.
Keep the combat guys !
wait.. how does closing down websites protests against SOPA?
I will be fine with SOPA once they decide to crack down on the KKK, WBC and other hate groups. If you are going to do that to websites why not to things that can actually hurt people.
Just because you don't like what someone has to say doesn't mean you can criminalize them. WBC and KKK exist because we allow them to speak what they feel. You should take special care in any endorsement of the idea that the thought police are justified.
This bill isn't being passed to reduce the freedom of speech, while it may conflict with that somewhat, It is meant to stop illegal activity. While you guys may not like this, I've had too many people I know go to jail for years because they don't have self control/moral ability to stay away from doing illegal things on the internet. People also get sent to jail, that lowers there ability of free speech, but that's not why they get sent there. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." This isn't the government trying to tick people off, there are reasons behind every action. Try looking at both sides before you rip off on this.
Here's how i aproove everything,a human decides by itself.It doesn't always see the consequences of it's actions but it does what it wants to do and that's what we all do.The people from SOPA wan't to stop illegal activity whilist being WAAAY to harsh and are ready to shut down any website with pirated content,the tiniest of link may cause the doom of any place,including google,moddb,youtube,facebook,steam,you name it and SOPA does it.This isn't just about freedom of speach but about the fact that SOPA is going WAY too far with this and are ready to destroy the internet,those who support them only want to take advantage and become the only company thus taking over the market.It's mostly money,yet again a choice by man to prefer money over justice.
We do look at both sides. While piracy is a serious issue, a law to ban the internetis no an effective solution. With this law, any website with any questionably copyrighted material, will be shut down. Youtube? Gone. Heck, Facebook could be gone. Any form of network where people share things would be gone. All in the name of saving the film industry, which they claim is being KILLED by piracy, while every study is clearly showing that the film industry is making over 10 times more profit than it was 10 years ago. Hardly 'killing' the industry. It is instead a desperate cash-grab by the film corporations, which gives america the power to close any website they want, even before any form of investigation is conducted. You simply have to be ACCUSED of having some copyrighted content, and your website is immediately shut down, so that a few months later they can begin n investigation to see if it should have been shut down or not, and whether they should be taking you to court or not. Lovely bunch, these filmmakers.
Fantastic. Hope ModDB does something similar, as well.
Land of the free, my ***.
Need to get a bunch of these geezers out of Congress and House of Reps and actually get some people in there who are not out of date with the times, and refuse to be paid off by corporate scum.
Term limits for congress! The president has term limits, why not them? Business wouldn't be able to invest in buying congressmen, it would cost too much. As for the Internet bill, I haven't read it myself so I don't know what to say about it. I will say that if it gives the government more control over the Internet then it needs to go to the floor and voted down instead of shelving it till the bill can be passed in the dead of night.
f*u*c*k the nwo
I am with Notch all the way! :D
This bill is ridiculous, is April fools early?
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