"Gamers, Google, Wikepedia and others are fighting back against our rights to the freedom of speech..."

LOL, it's "FOR our rights", not "AGAINST our rights".

What a fail.

70,000 jobs lost? way to pull a figure out of your arse without a source!

Millions lost? GTFO just because they didnt land another crisp 5 million on top of the 50 million they already got from their product. Money really is the green eyed monster.

Personally I pirate as a demo (since demos just dont seem to be cool anymore according to the very publishers and devs I address.) and unfortunetely to tell you developers and publishers if your game is SHIT, funnily enough I will NOT buy it.

Its either two things when Devs/Pubs blame Piracy, either they did not get the money they were hoping for or their game sold barely.

e.g Dice/EA late last year accused piracy of lowering their sales!

What an arrogant bloody statement, you mean to tell me your single player was so worth buying the game for? that 5 hour COD BO rip off which turned into a point and click game halfway through? You ACTUALLY think your SP was genuinely good? Sorry to break your little heart John Ricta...Ahhh it does nt MATTER what your name is but your SP was just plain ol crap sir.

THen you get the other developers, Devs of Brink "piracy boo hoo", Codemasters Devs on twitter with mumurs of "piracy" NO NO AND NO your game was just flat out SHIT.

Hollywood Aswell is spewing buckets of tears about not getting enough revenue (my arse with actors still recieving rediculous fees).

Can anyone remember the last film actually worth going to the cinema to see?

My opinion: To avoid Piracy make a better product because when something is genuinely of value and worth buying you should have every confidence it will be supported. e.g Half Life 2, Dark Knight, Skyrim, Dark Souls, Uncahrted 3, Gears 3, Witcher 2 etc etc etc.

Disclaimer: This post may seem brash but I dont condone piracy in anyway, I use it as a fair trade option when trying an unproven product e.g Demo and that is the extent of my piracy use.

But attt the end of the day its all just advice to greedy companies, thats all it is, its just an opinion...But..

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Sopa/Pipa is about so much more than gameplay vids on Utube. How many of our avatars are copyrighted, or how many comments have I read, that say " F buying this game gonna to Torrent it". If this bill passes that's all it will take, to shut down a website. For "Promoting Piracy"' furthermore the onus is on the website to prove their innocence. Guilty until proven Innocent, this would bankrupt all but the largest Corporations.

Today was a very sad day without NG4

Hope if it does happen (please don't) they should also censor Facebook.

I just want to say much respect to the people at N4G, the sites and everyone out there against SOPA/PIPA. I honesty didn't think N4G would of blackout as well, but it's nice to know what you guys support, on the behalf of the gaming community, thank you!!!

loss of freedom effects everyone,so we should all stand together and say no .

Gamers fight back ??? LOL

This site had the cheek to fight and we have no freedom of speech here. Not with dodgy mods,bubbles,fanboys , news approving and so on ...So well done n4g you really served well ,not

This video explains how the same people who scream piracy are the ones that distribute the software!

I thought the blackout on N4G was going to be for 24 hours? Oh btw i'm in california.

@ Zha1tan. Okay two things are wrong with your little rant. First of all demoing a game as an excuse for piracy is a weak excuse. People are not as saintly as people seem to try and make them out. Saying it is okay to pirate because you want to demo a game is not a good excuse. You buy the game like you used to do long before in the old days based on opinions, research and scores.

Saying it is okay to pirate because you want a demo is not a solution because even if a thousand people are nice enough to actually buy the game, five thousand people might decide it isn't worth buying the actual game when they could easily pirate it even if they like it. That means five thousand potential customers who might still have brought my game gone.

Also you statement which I hear people saying all the time about 'just make a good game and everyone will support it'. Okami was a well crafted, well thought out, highly scored game and yet it was ignored by many gamers. What constitutes a 'good' game in people's eyes? Rayman Origins was better then any Mario game released by Nintendo in the last few years in my opinion but it sold so much less. Was a crappy,glitchy badly done game? No. But I'll bet that didn't stop it from being pirated by people who couldn't tear themselves away from the mainstream garbage that people constantly buy to try and support it legitimately.

So no offense but the excuses for pirating games and anything else are very weak and lame. You can do it if you want but please stop trying to spin it like you are doing someone a favor. The people whose games and companies go down the tubes because they couldn't take the losses that things like piracy do to them I am certain don't see your point of view.

I am sure they don't appreciate the fact that you are stealing the game and then tossing it back in my face if you don't want it with the pirate getting the profits and me the maker of the product getting nothing.At least if people buy it legit and bring it back to the store the developer still gets his profits.

But if you steal it and don't buy it at all I get nothing. Who says that you won't like the games for petty, stupid, idiotic reasons like many gamers do? R3 was hated for very dumb reasons when it was a perfectly good game. So in short I, the developer, must rely and condone the chaotic results and pathways of piracy instead of the well thought out legit ways of selling my game? I must rely on you paying someone who did nothing but steal my game, you taking what belongs to me, so you MIGHT buy it? How is that compromise?

WHAT?

1. Not the right title, and the quote on here doesn't even appear as a quote in the article. The person who submitted this article put his own opinions into the description. And the words he used are extremely misleading, anyway, since last I checked, most of the gaming content makers on YouTube, including TotalBiscuit and Jessie Cox, were firmly against the two bills.

2. About the 70k job loss claim, that was a figure the MPAA, someone who not only supported SOPA/PIPA but also tried to say that video cassette recorders would destroy their industry, claimed. It wasn't proven fact, like the article tried to claim (and Wiki did have the reference to the MPAA making that claim).

3. This guy is a joke. I said that we should like people play homebrew games on their PS3 without consequence and stand true to that, but seeing what this guy was actually trying to sell as a game, and for the amount he was trying to sell, I would say ANY homebrew proponent would have second thoughts. He's trying to peddle crap like that and then overprice that. No wonder people would pirate that crap. I bet the pirates STILL feel ripped off that they would spend so much time.

4. Okay, so YouTube HURTS the game industry? So the people who made indie titles like Nation Red, Rock of Ages, or Amnesia suffer because people like TotalBiscuit decide to feature them for his WTF is series? On the contrary! Though I don't have the hard sales figures, from personal experience, it's gotten me to want to try several games that I haven't tried before, and to buy games that I wouldn't buy otherwise. This guy has his facts completely backwards on that subject!

no to any kind of censorship. period.

this isnt china.

Dont like it? move mother****er!

A law has passed in America that the gov can put you in jail with no trails nothing just an acusation.

Mix this SOPA and PIPA together and you'll have alot of people going to jail, oh yeah and they have plenty of space for people in jails so thats no issue there since there is a FEMA camp in every state.

Protest on the street against the gov? you're a terrorist.

oh yeah and they make money from people in jail its a big business.

This is not good news, there reasons are only excuses, its purely about controll of the masses and how much extra money they can make from this.

SOPA is a shit

N4G did an excellent Job

oh n4g is back yay! but it hasnt been 24 hours since the blackout...and it said n4g will b gone for 24 hours when they shut it down, oh well i'm happy.. finally got something to do xD

Who on here has never watched music they liked on youtube, who on here has ever download a song they shouldn't have, who on here has ever watched a pirated dvd or any program they wanted i rest my case?
Come on we all have i mean we are not costing them millions or even billions before piracey on the net you could tape the uk top 40 singles chart and if you had 2 video recorders you could copy movies and copy computer games for your zx spectrum and so what you are hearing is rubbish, and how many of you actually go to the cinema every week % it's a conspiracey to stop information on the net and turn the world into a police state i mean we only have to go into the street your being watched by cctv look at the bigger picture guys they want to control everything we are doing fact, what music we like what game we like what coffe we like, what food we buy fact.
It's controlling the masses, "you listen to us" thats what they want, to control you!
We must take a stand! Like the usa, british, russian, french governments they critise the conflicts in the world but they sell the arms to them, fact controlling.