- elmicker
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I'd be thrilled, -blam!- ecstatic, except for a few points:
1) SOPA was first proposed waaay back in October. 3 months to come to an opinion about something so clearly inflammatory is, well, slow.
2) SOPA is a non-starter, if nothing else, the DHS-driven deployment of DNSSEC will prevent it from ever coming to fruition (if it ever passes, which, let's face it, it won't). Given a choice between SOPA and DNSSEC, the US will choose DNSSEC every time. You gentlemen have enough technological know-how to understand this. So, you're backing a position safe in the knowledge that it, regardless of the moral authority, will be the eventual outcome. Coupled with the geological rate it took to reach the opinion, the opinion itself is debased.
3) You cite the EFF in your press release, but take absolutely contradictory positions to the EFF on your forums, notably the ban on perfectly legitimate software/hardware hacking discussion, hacking that has driven the modern computing industry to where it is today.
4) "Bungie is opposed to any legislation that curtails free speech, stifles innovation, and prevents the open sharing of information on the Internet" - So where are the press releases regarding PIPA, DMCA, PATRIOT and the multitude of other bills that pose similar/greater risks/are already implemented?
5) Bungie.net is registered with a registrar that refuses to take a position, instead delivering weasel words of the worst kind. Put your money where your mouth is: change registrars.
and so on and so forth.
So, yeah, it's nice you've taken this position, but you may as well have farted in the wind for all the weight it carries.
[Edited on 01.13.2012 8:16 PM PST]