Runic Games stands against SOPA

@Ryuk

Next week I think

@Undulation

Well it's important.... If it passes, this very website could be blocked from one wimper of a dev, for example...

@Undulation You seem to not understand what this bill can and will do if your getting annoyed at hearing about it. I hope more companies show their support and news site report about it so we can get people like you to realize what is going to happen if we don't stop it. I bet the 18th is gonna blow your mind when you try to go to certain sites and they don't work.

@Teeree

It's not necessarily that it will be blocked.
First, the bills, for the most part, simply update penalties for existing laws, mostly legacy copyright, customer advocacy, and infringement laws, the documents reference these existing pieces of legislation as you read. A lot of these individual bills are being tailored without much notice from the general public in anticipation of SOPA/PIPA.
That being said, the penalties include forbidding merchant services from allowing money to be paid to sites, forbidding the import of goods from merchants, forbidding search engines to return blacklisted sites in queries, and removing the listing of NA DNS records.
These are NON AUTHORITATIVE DNS servers, not the international DNS servers, or say, a local DNS server you run on your machine. You can easily circumvent this by using private DNS servers for hosting your DNS or to pull DNS records from. Hell, you can circumvent it by updating your HOSTS file to point whatever URL you want to the IP address of the site that still exists.
The site isn't actually blocked, it's just been poisoned on the NA DNS side, an IP address or Authoritative DNS server will get you there just fine. It isnt exactly blocking, so much as poisoning the public NA DNS tables.

Of course some of the NA DNS servers (GoDaddy, Network Solutions) will also adhere to federal takedown notices of the site in question should you be hosting it at one of these places (pretty sure they do this now anyways). Either use a non-US webserver, or a private webserver and you can be insulated from that scenario as well.

Either way I'd rather SOPA/PROTECT IP didn't happen. There is already existing legislation on the books detailing the actual crimes that are punishable by SOPA/PIPA - including punishment recommendations on some, and precedents set in courts. Some of the laws date back to the 40s (a particular customer protection act I can't quite recall the name of...) and have some long standing precedents for punishment. All this does is throw 80 years of intellectual property precedent out the window and starts all over with lots of super bad nanny-state nonsense.