The Next Web ’s Alex Wilhelmnoticed something interesting — after try on to get a scuttlebutt from Microsoft over the fascistStop Online Piracy Act , he receive silence . So he dug around and found Microsoft is n’t alone — here are their pro - censorship allies .
https://gizmodo.com/the-internet-crippling-bill-might-get-slightly-less-ter-5860449
Microsoft ’s implied sustenance for SOPA stems from its membership in the Business Software Alliance , a pork chop - fisted , finger - wagging piracy cry baby lobbying firm , whose life ’s oeuvre is grass our piffling plagiarisation and releasingmisleading studies . And as Wilhelm betoken out , the BSA has , shockingly , come out strong in support of SOPA :
The Business Software Alliance today commend House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith ( R - Texas ) for introducing the “ contain Online Piracy Act ” ( H.R. 3261 ) to check the growing blizzard of software piracy and other form of intellectual holding theft that are being pull by illicit web site .
So what other companies pay money to have the BSA talk for them in support of SOPA ? Many :
•Adobe
•Apple
•Autodesk
•AVEVA
•AVG
•Bentley Systems
•CA
•Cadence Design Systems
•CNC Software – Mastercam
•Compuware
•Corel
•Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation
•Dell
•Intel
•Intuit
•Kaspersky
•McAfee
•Microsoft
•Minitab
•Progress Software
•PTC
•Quark
•Quest
•Rosetta Stone
•Siemens PLM Software , Inc.
•Sybase
•Symantec
•TechSmith
•The MathWorks
Nevermind the pissant small companies on this list you ’ve never listen of . What ’s worrisome is the colossus , like Apple , Adobe , Microsoft , and Intel . Companies who hypocritically thrive off the open nature of the cyberspace — an net where it ’s not a felony to post an invigorate GIF from a tiny fraction of your favorite film , or record you and a friend lipsyncing Nicki Minaj . The internet has exploded because of these on the face of it trivial freedoms — the exemption to mess up around and create interesting stuff . Experimentation without fear of federal imprisonment lead to some pretty amazing stuff and nonsense . Stuff that ’s then used with the very software and equipment these SOPA backers sell . So it ’s not just that they ’re supporting an frightening censorship law — these BSA cronies are seize with teeth our hand that feed them . [ TNW ]
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