Russ Gilbert’s Comments

• Feb 25th, 2012 @ 9:51am

  (untitled comment)

  on Hollywood's Latest 'Conciliatory' Effort Towards Silicon Valley? Forcing Lobbyists To Drop Tech Companies As Clients
  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.
• Dec 27th, 2011 @ 3:49pm

  Re: Re: Lets see the list

  on GoDaddy Officially Has Name Removed From Judiciary's List Of SOPA Supporters
  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.
• Dec 27th, 2011 @ 3:17pm

  Re: Re: List of Companies

  on GoDaddy Officially Has Name Removed From Judiciary's List Of SOPA Supporters
  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.
• Dec 27th, 2011 @ 2:32pm

  List of Companies

  on GoDaddy Officially Has Name Removed From Judiciary's List Of SOPA Supporters
  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?