Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150401070234/@comment-3076045-20150414233225

Its a bit off topic, but I'll answer it so we can then move on :)

I think that was a different act? The act was the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA). The problem wasn't so much internet piracy - which we do not condone. The problem was that it was EXTREMELY badly written, and would have had a harmful effect on legitimate websites such as ours and wikipedia. Effectively, if there was a copyright issue, no matter how minor, entire websites would get shut down. So, for example, someone forgot to attribute an image on here to Bethesda (unintentionally) - we could get the entire site shut down for good. Same with wikipedia. THAT's why we took a stand against it.

And the reason we started talking about that - was because I was joking about the COD image. (The giant stop sign was borrowed (with their permission) from their site :) They're really good at coding that sort of stuff.

Another interesting side note - I'm pretty sure it was Flightmare's coding that was used. (At the time, he wasn't an Admin here - yet).