AFAICT, Netflix has said nothing about supporting SOPA-like legislation with this PAC, and indeed has said nothing about FIXPAC's agenda at all. It could just as likely act as a net neutrality advocate. Stow your pitchforks, at least for now.
Other than in this article, and those like it, where exactly does it say that this PAC will be pro-SOPA? I haven't seen anything at all from Netflix saying as much.
This is much more likely to be about the VPPA, a law which Netflix believes makes it illegal to provide social
features in the US:<p><a href="http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2012/01/netflix-to-testify-tuesday-at-senate-committee-against-the-vppa.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2012/01/netflix-to-testify-tue...</a>
On the surface, I don't see anything wrong with people/corporations being on the side of "stopping online piracy". So just saying a new bill is being introduced to stop online piracy or that a corporation is going to funnel money to legislators writing it should not be enough to break out the pitchforks and assemble in the town square. Just because SOPA was a dog turd doesn't mean that every attempt to stop piracy is going to be the same. If the next bill fixed all the problems that people had with SOPA/PIPA and still managed to combat piracy, would that be a bad thing? Is it so crazy to be against piracy? Isn't piracy illegal?<p>EDIT: just to clarify... I torrent the hell out of movies and CDs. I just won't ever claim that doing it today is legal. Would I be sad if it all went away? sure. But I don't think I'm entitled to any of it. And I don't buy the "I'm poor... so I <i>have</i> to pirate it" argument.
I've been a paid Nexflix users for maybe 30+ months now. I like, love, the service. This is unfortunate, the only thing that I can do is see how it plays out over the next cuple of weeks and move my money out of the service if necessary.
So is this one the truth then? <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/04/09/behind-the-netflix-pac-a-broadband-power-play/" rel="nofollow">http://gigaom.com/2012/04/09/behind-the-netflix-pac-a-broadb...</a>
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3821854" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3821854</a> (comments)
More info here: <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/09/sopa-supporters-await-cash-infusion-from-netflix-pac/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/09/sopa-supporters-await-...</a>