"Recently I posted about the findings of SOPA 2.0, and how the Obama Administration wants to pass part(s) of SOPA. Further inspection of the documents listed by the Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force shows that they also want to widen the meaning of what “streaming” means, making it allot vaguer then once thought. " - Michael
With the political world focusing on the upcoming presidential battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, politicians are still finding time to single out videogames. H.R. 4204, or “Violence in Video Games Labeling Act”, is a bill that would require a mandatory warning label linking videogames to aggressive behavior on nearly all titles. As legislation that will set a dangerous precedent based on questionable research, League For Gamers (LGF) is rallying the troops at PAX East in Boston this weekend to generate the type of support that caused SOPA and PIPA to die early deaths. But there is a lot of activity going on under the radar with the U.S. government trying to circumvent the type of rallying cry that defeated SOPA and PIPA.
It's important to keep tabs on the stuff gov'ts try to pull when it comes to Internet regulations.
It's important to keep tabs on governments whenever they try to regulate anything. They're sneaky bastards.
@ dredgewalker
That's all of 'em. :D I don't know if I should laugh cry. :/
It's important to keep tabs on government officials who are lackeys of big corporations.
One of the most heavily pirated games of 2011 was, rather predictably, the newest Call of Duty game. Based off of statistics from torrent sites Modern Warfare 3 was downloaded illegally over 3 million times, and this was just in the few months between its release and the end of the year. Using math borrowed from the RIAA and MPAA, that means Activision Blizzard directly lost over, and this is a rough estimate, 60 billion double dollars.
This is something that supporters of draconian copyright enforcement laws and the further encroachment of Big Daddy America on the international internet point to as a reason we need all these absolutely terrible initialisms that look to try and turn the world into even more of a corporate dystopia than it already is. “Every downloaded game is a lost sale” they say, “each of these pirates would be a paying customer otherwise” they say, “burn all the poor people for fuel so the temperature never drops below 70 in gated communities” they say.
Not the greatest fan of Activision, but as long as Blizzard is with them I will never hate them.
What?
You don't want to support this gazillion dollar companies? Quick, support online passes!
Activision don't need (Or in some people's minds deserve) the extra sales. I mean the pirates probably wouldn't have bought the game anyway.
Perhaps that number would go down if Activision made a revolutionary Call of Duty that was good enough to pay full price for.
So basically ACTA and SOPA are money making monsters for game devs?
Am i missing something or really stupid?
The title is sarcastic. It's saying that the games and movie industry is doing just fine. They're continuing to make more and more money each year. Not the other way around as they seem to want us to believe.
"While we can’t claim responsibility for postponing the votes on SOPA and PIPA, we’d like to think we did our part to let you know how bad it was. So, congratulations to you, Internet, for making the **AA wait! Stay classy! In any event, season 2 of the 20 Sides of Nerd Podcast is well underway."- Draeno
Sigh, politicians sticking their noses in where they aren't wanted.
*sigh* this again?
Can they please give it up already!
What? No.
Im sure they timed this. They launch this when school starts, when everyone is busy dealing with getting adjusted to classes and a new school setting to care.