Hollywood Bites Back Against SOPA Protesters
While there have been a raft of high profile websites protesting about anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA, with high-profile companies including Google, Wikipedia and even the White House getting involved, the content providers have bitten back with a campaign of their own.
Hollywood is trying to change the nations mind
The group called Creative America and representing big name companies from TV and movies such as Sony Pictures, NBC Universal, Warner Bros, Disney and Viacom, have launched a TV ad and will follow that up with newspaper and radio campaigns supporting the SOPA and PIPA bills.
Speaking out against opponents of the bill that would mean websites could be shut down for any number of minor misdemeanors, that include copying of video clips, text and images, Mike Nugent, the Executive Director of Creative America said, “With the opponents of the bill trafficking in misinformation, fear tactics and public relations stunts like blacking out their websites—in essence censoring the Internet themselves—we thought it more important than ever to get the message out that these bills are reasoned, narrow, effective and necessary measures to combat foreign rogue sites which are preying on American consumers and costing American jobs.”
As part of the campaign, Creative America tell people what to do during the numerous internet blackouts. Their ‘helpful’ suggestions include, reading a book, listening to music, or watching a movie. The banner will be shown “on a huge billboard in New York’s Times Square throughout the day on January 18th as an answer to those opponents of the bills who are blacking out their websites,” writes Creative America.
Although it is to be expected that the TV companies and Hollywood will put up a fight over the bill they have so much to gain from. It seems that the public are not so easily swayed. The Creative America website has only been liked a few thousand times via Facebook, and a couple of thousand Twitter followers. In comparison, petitions against SOPA and PIPA have millions of supporters and signatures, as well as leading to protest in the streets.
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