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psybelle... and found this: Black March. Many thanks to nighean_isis for the headsup!
I'm in, with small caveats... One suggestion was to buy content (if you must) only from independent retailers/creators who opposed SOPA/PIPA, but avoid Big Industry entertainments. My neighborhood indie bookstore will be the only place I'll shop for books and such, and I'll only be buying used media for the month... (Not that it would be a hardship for me to go completely without for the month. But I like supporting independent retailers, and this is one way of doing that.)
I know there are independent creators who actually support those bills in spite of the legislation being poorly written, badly aimed and utterly ineffective. The question I'd love to ask, if I was speaking to them, is: Which way do you lose more business? Through "piracy" or through people like me who are adamantly against censorship (and the presumption of guilt, and punishment without trial) and shop by our ethics?
I'm in, with small caveats... One suggestion was to buy content (if you must) only from independent retailers/creators who opposed SOPA/PIPA, but avoid Big Industry entertainments. My neighborhood indie bookstore will be the only place I'll shop for books and such, and I'll only be buying used media for the month... (Not that it would be a hardship for me to go completely without for the month. But I like supporting independent retailers, and this is one way of doing that.)
I know there are independent creators who actually support those bills in spite of the legislation being poorly written, badly aimed and utterly ineffective. The question I'd love to ask, if I was speaking to them, is: Which way do you lose more business? Through "piracy" or through people like me who are adamantly against censorship (and the presumption of guilt, and punishment without trial) and shop by our ethics?