The Stop Online Piracy Act bill (SOPA or HR 3261) was widely supported by organizations based on copyright, including the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the American Recording Industry Association (RIAA), Macmillan, Viacom, and many other companies and associations in the cable industry, film and music industry.
On December 22, 2011 , Lamar Smith, the sponsor of the bill, published on the website of the House Legal Committee a list of 142 organizations supporting the SOPA [1] . Other lists were published by the organizations themselves.
After the first publication, the list was updated several times. As of the morning of December 29, 2011 , there were 18 less supporters on the official list, including a total of 124 out of 142 original supporters. The growing publicity of this list on websites such as Reddit has led to what can be called a PR failure for some of the supporters on the list. Probably the first and most famous case is GoDaddy.com , a popular Internet domain registrar and hosting provider that openly supported SOPA. As a result of the proposed boycott of its services, which should have prompted the company to abandon SOPA support, GoDaddy suffered significant losses, losing more than 72,000 domains in less than a week. GoDaddy began with the announcement that “no longer supports the SOPA bill,” soon replacing this statement with “GoDaddy VS. SOPA”. [2]
Project Support Organizations
These companies have declared support for SOPA during the development of the draft law [1] :
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Note: 124 organizations are listed.
Organizations that refuse support
The following are the organizations whose names were excluded from the list of those who supported the Stop Online Piracy Act:
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* This company is one of the members of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which declined support for SOPA. [6]
Note: 23 organizations are listed. (based on a comparison of the original list of 142 companies and the current version of December 29, 2011)
Notes
- 2 1 2 Smith, Lamar List of Supporters: HR 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (not available link) . House Judiciary Committee. The appeal date is December 23, 2011. Archived January 1, 2012.
- ↑ McCullagh, Declan, GoDaddy bows to boycott, now 'opposes' SOPA copyright bill , News.cnet.com , < http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57349913-281/godaddy-bows-to-boycott -now-opposes-sopa-copyright-bill / > . Retrieved 29 December 2011.
- ↑ Apple quits supporting SOPA, other companies start following (not available link) . DeviliPhone.com (November 23, 2011). The date of circulation is January 29, 2012. Archived September 9, 2012.
- ↑ Beachbody's SOPA and PIPA position (not available link) (January 20, 2012). The appeal date is February 6, 2012. Archived September 9, 2012.
- 2 1 2 3 Geoff Duncan Tweet (2011-12-31), Sony, EA, Nintendo drop explicit SOPA support , Digitaltrends.com , < http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/sony-ea-nintendo-drop- explicit-sopa-support / > . Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- 2 1 2 Entertainment Software Association withdrawals SOPA, PIPA support (January 20, 2012). The appeal date is February 6, 2012. Archived September 9, 2012.
- ↑ Reisinger, Don. Go Daddy gets name off SOPA supporters list . CNET News (December 27, 2011). The date of circulation is January 17, 2012. Archived September 9, 2012.