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List of organizations that support the Stop Online Piracy Act

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The Wikipedia:Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has found broad support from organizations that rely on copyright, including the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Macmillan Publishers, Viacom, and various other companies and unions in the cable, movie, and music industries.

On December 22, 2011, Lamar Smith, the bill's sponsor, released a list of 142 organizations that support SOPA on the Wikipedia:House Judiciary Committee's website.[1] Other lists have been released by the organizations themselves.

Following the list's original release, it was updated multiple times. As of the morning of December 29, 2011, the official list had 18 less supporters, including only 124 of the original 142 supporters. The growing publicity of this list on websites such as Reddit resulted in what might be referred to as a public relations disaster for some of the supporters listed. Arguably the first and most prominent case regarded GoDaddy.com, a popular internet domain registrar and web hosting company which openly supported SOPA. GoDaddy sustained significant losses, losing over 72,000 domains in less than one week, as a result of a proposed boycott of their services, pending it renounce its support of SOPA. GoDaddy has since announced that it "no longer supports SOPA legislation," then amended that statement to "GoDaddy OPPOSES SOPA."[2]

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Supporting organizations[edit]

Organizations that support the Stop Online Piracy Act include:[1] Template:Div col

Template:Div col end Note: 124 Organizations are listed.

Removed organizations[edit]

Organizations that have had their names removed from the list of supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act include: Template:Div col

Template:Div col end Note: 23 Organizations are listed. (based on comparison between original 142 count list and current list as of December 29, 2011)

Organizations that were never on the list, that oppose the SOPA[edit]

These companies have gotten news coverage for opposing the act.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Smith, Lamar List of Supporters: H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act. House Judiciary Committee. URL accessed on 23 December 2011.
  2. ↑ McCullagh, Declan GoDaddy bows to boycott, now 'opposes' SOPA copyright bill. CBS Interactive, Inc. (CNET). URL accessed on 29 December 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Go Daddy gets name off SOPA supporters list | Security - CNET News
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sony, EA, Nintendo drop explicit SOPA support
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