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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by toshiblue on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:56AM (#3238617)
From http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s968/money

Specific orgs supporting the bill: Microsoft, CBS, MLB, NBA, NFL, Disney, Bose, Nike, etc, etc.

Specific orgs opposed to the bill: Google, Yahoo, VISA, AmEx, and some foundations, groups, non-profits...but that's it.

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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by sukuriant on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @01:44PM (#3239486)
.. why is Microsoft supporting this bill...?
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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by roc on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @02:39PM (#3239775)
They stand to gain more from IP enforcement than lose to the false positives and business opportunities.

Also, perhaps more cynically, it stands to do very serious harm to Google.

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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by codedivine on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:12AM (#3238698)
I don't get why Pfizer, Adidas etc are supporting this. What do they gain out of this?
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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by Xuzz on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:19AM (#3238732)
Counterfeits, possibly? I believe a lot of counterfeits are sold online and those companies might be interested in trying to get rid of those.
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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by jhancock on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @09:16PM (#3241406)
My take is that SOPA is about a great deal more than digital goods. The global economy has enormous minor/innocent IP infringement as well as blatant copying. Companies want to circumvent tradition legal approaches to protecting their IP and it looks like they may get it.
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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by robryan on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:38PM (#3241793)
Grey market goods? Currently these big companies fight a losing battle trying to secure their distribution to only authorised dealers. I would assume this bill would make it a lot easier for them to get sites they don't want trading their goods shut down.
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