Out of Pod Experience

Wikipedia 18 Jan 2012 - SOPA - this link is useless on any other day.

Please CCP iterate your position concerning SOPA and PIPA.

Silence is an answer too. (you haven`t joined the 18 Jan 2012 web movement) You can`t remain neutral regarding this.

Your community needs a statement with your position.

CCP is an Icelandic company, so yes, yes they can.

This will affect everyone utilizing the internet by introducing draconian legal tools for interfering with DNS resolution.

If that wasn't worrying enough, try reading up on the international version called ACTA.

For more information check out the front page of reddit, or Google's website where the logo is currently blacked out in opposition to these two terrible pieces of legislation. Claiming that they won't affect you if you aren't in the US demonstrates an astounding ignorance of the internet's basic infrastructure.

CCP, being based in Iceland, would doubtless be aware that the US isn't above hacking the emails of their parliamentary members over one errant Australian guy who embarrassed them, nevermind what they will do when there's a few billion dollars in lobby money on the table for them.

I'm sure CCP, as a holder of intellectual property, would be somewhat more conflicted about this. However they should also understand that it's the players and the contributions they make to the game that make it what it is. Without many of the fantastic ideas the playerbase has come up with over the years, where do you think eve would be today? The moment you try to consider information as 'property', things break in an open internet, and they break badly.


These two bills are just the opening shots in an all-out war waged by big content and existing rightsholders against every user of the internet, and as such even if you aren't a US citizen you should be extremely frightened and pissed off.

I don't expect CCP to issue a statement either way, but I would like them to quietly oppose this legislation or anything remotely like it.

Check your country legislative proposals. Almost all EU countries have similar initiatives.
Also, CCP is a international company with servers in US also. (and if I`m not mistaking they have an Atlanta office)

And the final point, if US goes with SOPA and PIPA, the rest of the civilized world will implement this type of acts into their legislation.

Yes it does. Many other countries are on the brink of introducing similarly ******** laws but so far their lobbies have not gained enough momentum to succeed at such plan.

With the influential USA setting up such a massive precedent, you may expect a chain effect in a sizable part of the western countries. Eastern countries tend to have censorship and "freedom management" already anyway.

Please keep political discussions from the so called "real world" in Out of Pod Experience. Thanks! :)

You can still access wikipedia by following the advice they give you, disable javascripts and holy crap!

Also google blackout is underway (they put a black box over google) you can still use it just fine though :trollface:

Yes, this can and will affect people outside of the US.

you could have played today's emergency reboot as CCP's support for the protest