Except A: The RIAA has outright stated "If China can do it, why can't we?" as why SOPA is fine. They're actively trying to take us down the path towards being China.

Yes, and an attorney represents you. As does the ESA. If the ESA represents Capcom and the ESA is pushing for SOPA, then Capcom is supporting SOPA. They are paying and standing by the ESA while they try to push SOPA through. They're supporting it.

No. Epic's "We don't support the current version of SOPA" is a great response. It's fine that these companies are wanting IP protection. The problem is that SOPA does that (except not really. It's already bypassable) in such an awful way that it would break the internet. So Epic not supporting the current, awful…

Oh, right. I forgot ignorance of the law is a valid defense. For one, they have. It's been highly talked about enough that, if they haven't read up on it, it's solely so they have the kind of plausible deniability you're affording them here.

Uh, no. There really is an objective answer. If you agree with some parts but not others, guess what? You don't agree with the bill. Either you think the bill should pass or you don't. There's no middle ground. If you think it should pass, but at the same time, think that SOPA is too broad and vaguely worded, giving…

Which they've pretty much stated isn't gonna happen, so at this point with their stance on SOPA, fuck Capcom.

Hilariously, almost all of the companies Yokai mentioned have. Nintendo, Epic, and Sony all have. Even EA has. Microsoft's the only one mentioned there that hasn't, and that's why they're considered supports of it.

No, on this, there is only black and white. If you don't support SOPA and don't speak out or do anything to prevent it and it passes, the entire internet gets regulated with this incredibly horribly written pile of garbage. And if you do like the bill and think it should pass, then at least have the balls to stand by…

Also, as for "Neither does Epic or Microsoft or Nintendo or Sony...", uhh... yeah, they do. Epic, Nintendo, EA, and Sony have all come out against it. Just because a company is part of the ESA doesn't mean they have to support the bill or keep quiet if they don't.

Are you stupid? Don't try to get companies to act responsible? If companies support bad legislation or business practices, they absolutely should be held accountable and lose business. By your stance, all those GoDaddy customers unhappy with GoDaddy's support of a bill that will ruin the internet should have just shut…

This is pure bullshit. At least have the decency to declare a side. You either support it or you don't. The fact you defer to the ESA shows you obviously do support it. The fact you then try and pull the "Well that's not what we said... *doesn't say anything to further clarify*" card shows that you're just being…

That's exactly what it is. They agree with the ESA and support SOPA, but don't want to say so in hopes that they can avoid the shitstorm GoDaddy faced with its support of SOPA. That makes this even more underhanded and shady.

"With the promise of increased shelf space and promotion or the threat that they may not carry a game at all, they can muscle dev studios and publishers into creating incentives that might entice buyers to pick, say, Best Buy or GameStop."

You still need to learn what words mean. When you reply to me and then exclusively use "you", a pronoun used to address the person being spoken to, yes. It is all about me. That's what the word "you" means, that YOU are talking to the person being referenced. It's not my fault you were clearly confrontational over the…

And again, I'm saying you can't know how that will work. I GUARANTEE some of those 1 million purchases are due to someone playing a pirated copy first. Thus, your alternate reality figure where piracy is impossible becomes 1 million and 1 MINUS (number of people that bought the game after pirating or because a pirate…

Hey, since you want to be a confrontational dumb shit, learn what words are and what commas mean. "downloaded" means something that was downloaded, and that ", $2 song" is the thing being referenced as being downloaded. It is not, as your 5th grade education-utilizing post seems to want to insist, a misspelling of…

No, you can't say that. You honestly don't know. No one does. Piracy gains plenty of sales, and the theoretical lost sales are mostly just that; theoretical and not actual lost sales. If anything, It's probably much closer to breaking even than anyone's willing to admit. Most pirates NEVER would have bought the thing.…

And? How much did those torrents lose? Oh, right. NONE. In fact, it SAVED the bundle money, as every torrented copy doesn't have to use their servers, unlike the cheaply purchased copies. And guess what? The Humble Indie Bundles are HUGELY successful. No matter how pirated or how many cheapos pay 1 cent, they're still…

Phew. Good to know that people's lives are worth just under double what theoretical lost profits from a downloaded, $2 song are. I was worried for a moment that things were completely batshit insane, and not just mostly batshit insane.

Exactly. Which is the exact reason the ESA is full of shit. This won't do a thing against piracy. Even if you ignore the fact average users would still be able to get to the sites using direct IPs, there are ALREADY Firefox and Chrome add-ons that just automatically use alternate DNS lookups to bypass it. They already…