I have to wonder if perhaps there's something going on behind the scenes we aren't privy to. This move seems so bizarre in the context of SOPA/PIPA that there might be another war being fought that isn't public yet.
Ah - I got confused by the "new comments on this thread" email.
I thought you were responding to my comment about how the list of "supporters" is padded due to companies and their subsidiaries being listed as individual supporters.
I see what you meant now after viewing on the site.
Something that's bugging me about this list, that I haven't heard mentioned anywhere.
Many of the "Companies" on this list are in fact subsidiaries of larger "big content" companies like Viacom.
Most egregious are things like "Universal Music" and "Universal Music Publishing Group, or "Warner Music Group" and "Warner Music Nashville" towards the bottom as though they weren't part of the same organization, but more subtle are items like "CMT" being part of Viacom, or "MCA Records" being part of Universal.
How long is this list really if we strip out this kind of redundancy? If corporations are people does this constitute "cloning" for the purposes of legislation?
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I have to wonder if perhaps there's something going on behind the scenes we aren't privy to. This move seems so bizarre in the context of SOPA/PIPA that there might be another war being fought that isn't public yet.
Leahy
And this whole time I thought the Joker was the Villain in the Dark Knight.
Re: Re: Lets see the list
Ah - I got confused by the "new comments on this thread" email.
I thought you were responding to my comment about how the list of "supporters" is padded due to companies and their subsidiaries being listed as individual supporters.
I see what you meant now after viewing on the site.
Re: Re: List of Companies
Yeah I was just contemplating taking a crack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_support_the_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
This makes it pretty easy since the companies listed on Wikipedia click through and have their corporate parents listed.
I was planning on just doing a bulleted list, possibly a collapsible one (collapsed by default) since this is the web after all.
List of Companies
Something that's bugging me about this list, that I haven't heard mentioned anywhere.
Many of the "Companies" on this list are in fact subsidiaries of larger "big content" companies like Viacom.
Most egregious are things like "Universal Music" and "Universal Music Publishing Group, or "Warner Music Group" and "Warner Music Nashville" towards the bottom as though they weren't part of the same organization, but more subtle are items like "CMT" being part of Viacom, or "MCA Records" being part of Universal.
How long is this list really if we strip out this kind of redundancy? If corporations are people does this constitute "cloning" for the purposes of legislation?