And there's the Gospel Music Association. Could there be anything more opposite to the concept of gospel than the concept of copyright?.

Absurdity.

Or _market_!

I was initially against SOPA, but seeing as the United States Tennis Association supports SOPA, I've decided that it's obviously in the best interests of the Internets.

If there is one truth to this world, its that the United States Tennis Association knows Internets.

Yes, today it occurred to me that pirated sets of Wimbledon matches must really be hurting the tennis business.

At least one company that was apparently on the list strongly denies they support or ever supported SOPA and PROTECT IP:

http://www.petzl.com/us/outdoor/news-2/2011/12/22/petzl-amer...

I wonder how many others are puppet entries. They'd better speak up fast before their reputation is ruined.

The major U.S. cable companies seem to be on that list. The major U.S. phone companies do not.

Many of us are in a situation where our ISP choices consist of the cable company and the phone company. One might consider this a point in the phone company's favor.

This is why I think Youtube would've died a long time ago under SOPA. The cable companies companies and TV networks hate Youtube, and it would've been a piece of cake to take down Youtube before it would've grown too large.

This is simply old and big media desperately trying to hold on to power.

So how do we hurt these company's pockets? Anything besides not buying their products?

I remember the days when boycots were very effective. Can we do that again?

They still are. Glenn Beck isn't on Fox anymore, right?

Is hurting them really the only option? Converting would be more useful..

Hurting is how you convert.

I expect them to act strictly in self-interest. Hurting them may be the only way to make it clear where that interest lies, but you're certainly right that other options are worth exploring if they can be found.

And here is your list of companies to boycott.

We can talk all we want, but until our money matches our mouths nothing will happen. (GoDaddy is just the start.)

I'm guessing that Flash being embedded from scribdassets.com is the list? I don't suppose there's a way to get access to this in plain text, or even a raster image?

There's a link to the PDF near the top of the article. Worked on my iPad, may help others.

This isn't about Hollywood... Its about Wikileaks and everyone else who wants to use their first ammendment right. thats my $.02

Both MasterCard and Visa are in the list (while I read somewhere else Amex is against SOPA), why would they support SOPA?

Why so many cosmetic companies? And Tiffany and Co? Actually kind of curious do they have parent companies on the list?t

It's because these companies routinely use IP laws to sue anyone who attempts to resell in the US products of theirs bought on cheaper markets outside the US.

Because their products are technically "pirated" (stolen and sold for less, counterfeits are made, etc).

Is there an official list of SOPA opponents?

Everybody else, minus those who have never heard of it. Or something like that.

Seriously, though, the best I could find were the creators of http://americancensorship.org/ I'm sure that there's a lot more opposition than just the people who created that, but that site doesn't appear to have a supporters page that one can sign on to. Or if they do, I missed it.

Not official, but http://www.cdt.org/report/list-organizations-and-individuals... has a long list of letters of opposition and concern from a wide range of organizations and individuals addressed to congress.

I am surprised Visa is both in proponents and opponents list. :)

Hedging their bets I guess.

Common to donate to both the Republicans and the Democrats, because no matter who wins they're ingratiated to you.

Why supporting and opposing a piece of legislation makes sense I don't know

notice how many law firms are on this list

who makes it "official".

"The U.S. House judiciary committee responsible for the Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA)" - from the first sentence in the link (note the URL for the PDF is at http://judiciary.house.gov).