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E3 Gaming Expo supports SOPA

Brisbane, Queensland

148 posts

didn't know this. so what's your stance trog? gunna stand strong with the rag-tag bunch of rebels and not cover E3? http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/stand-together-the-gaming-community-vs-sopa-and-pipa

12:15pm 20/01/12 Permalink

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greazy

Brisbane, Queensland

5221 posts

ausgamers would for ever be awesome if they not cover E3.

12:22pm 20/01/12 Permalink

Sc00bs

Brisbane, Queensland

8529 posts

Every company should pull out of E3, that would be awesome

12:26pm 20/01/12 Permalink

Dan

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Brisbane, Queensland

12671 posts

just my personal opinion, but I don't think this initiative is a useful form of protest. It's fine for exhibitors to withdraw from the event, that could have some reasonable impact, but asking press to boycott it is rather absurd.

For a start, a big chunk of the mainstream press are owned by the same companies that are lobbying for these stupid laws, so do you think Newscorp's IGN/1Up and Viacom's Gametrailers/G4TV etc etc are going to not be there covering everything regardless of what everyone else does?

Even if all independent press pulled out, all it would do is actually increase the traffic those publications would get as the only sources covering gaming's biggest annual event.

There are some good ways of protesting SOPA/PIPA out there, but this is not one of them.

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12:43pm 20/01/12 Permalink

Mordecai

Victoria

1220 posts

Every company should pull out of E3, that would be awesome

Even better. Go but refuse to be interviewed by any company that supports SOPA/PIPA or whos parent company supports them.

01:22pm 20/01/12 Permalink

HurricaneJim

Brisbane, Queensland

969 posts

just my personal opinion, but I don't think this initiative is a useful form of protest. It's fine for exhibitors to withdraw from the event, that could have some reasonable impact, but asking press to boycott it is rather absurd.

For a start, a big chunk of the mainstream press are owned by the same companies that are lobbying for these stupid laws, so do you think Newscorp's IGN/1Up and Viacom's Gametrailers/G4TV etc etc are going to not be there covering everything regardless of what everyone else does?

Even if all independent press pulled out, all it would do is actually increase the traffic those publications would get as the only sources covering gaming's biggest annual event.

There are some good ways of protesting SOPA/PIPA out there, but this is not one of them.

In other words you don't have the intestinal fortitude to make a public stance, not because of copyright, but the way they've gone about it. What happens when legislation like this ends up here, isn't this just another form of censorship or do you support the internet filter and no R18+ for games? Isn't it too late to shut the stable door once the horse has bolted?

BTW I've never been to 1UP, IGN, Gametrailers or G4TV.

01:36pm 20/01/12 Permalink

Dan

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Brisbane, Queensland

12675 posts

No, not in other words. Nothing in what I just said has anything to do with courage or a lack thereof, don't be daft.

My main point -- since you seem to have missed it -- was that independent press boycotting E3, would actually only have the outcome of empowering the media outlets that would still attend because they are owned by the same conglomerates that are bankrolling SOPA.

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01:48pm 20/01/12 Permalink

trog

AGN Admin

Brisbane, Queensland

35486 posts

BTW I've never been to 1UP, IGN, Gametrailers or G4TV.

In other words, you eat babies.

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02:00pm 20/01/12 Permalink

IVY_MiKe

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

672 posts

Dan's point is very valid.

If you're only leaving the 'sponsored/owned' press cover E3 you don't 'make a stand' you simply allow only the media outlets INVESTED in E3 cover what is going on at E3.

What would be more interesting would be the outcomes of a press interview AT E3 covering specifically the implications of SOPA/PIPA.

Either that or hit up each of the vendors about their product, and then interview them to the extent that SOPA/PIPA will affect their products 'gaming experience'.

one example I can think of would be Dirt 3's 'upload to youtube' option. I recall reading footnotes somewhere about how this new bill would essentially give only the game publisher/developer the power to formally 'publish' footage of their products...

03:54pm 20/01/12 Permalink

trog

AGN Admin

Brisbane, Queensland

35490 posts

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/01/20/esa-drops-sopa-support.aspx

Problem solved!

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12:11pm 21/01/12 Permalink

Brisbane, Queensland

149 posts

holy shit.

10:47pm 21/01/12 Permalink

TufNuT

I like eel pie

Brisbane, Queensland

3742 posts

in the words of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

01:24am 22/01/12 Permalink

Pinky

Melbourne, Victoria

12363 posts

Saw a pretty funny quote this week: "Under SOPA, you could get 5 years for uploading a Michael Jackson song. One year more than the doctor who killed him."

10:41pm 23/01/12 Permalink

ravn0s

Brisbane, Queensland

14385 posts

10:49pm 23/01/12 Permalink

Pinky

Melbourne, Victoria

12364 posts

Nice pic ravn0s, but I think it might be a 'shop.

I've marked where there are missing pixels which lead me to this conclusion.

I think it's too large a defect to be able to write this off as just some 'resolution artifact'.

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10:58pm 23/01/12 Permalink

ravn0s

Brisbane, Queensland

14386 posts

it's actually a shop of a shop

11:24pm 23/01/12 Permalink

Twisted

Brisbane, Queensland

11576 posts

Just redact all your reviews/coverage :p

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11:28pm 23/01/12 Permalink

Timmeh

Brisbane, Queensland

1780 posts

it's actually a shop of a shop

Black Monopoly

11:36pm 23/01/12 Permalink

Pinky

Melbourne, Victoria

12366 posts

it's actually a shop of a shop

I think I've seen this movie. DiCaprio?

11:37pm 23/01/12 Permalink

arkter

Gold Coast, Queensland

458 posts

lol pinky...

it's actually a shop of a shop

08:34am 24/01/12 Permalink

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