So, are you participating in Black March?

[teqrevisited]

I'm absolutely brassic. Black March will be normal March for me.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Oh, and for the record, Hasbro is not a SOPA sponsor. You can go ahead and watch Ponies; nobody's gonna complain.

You have no idea how surprising that is to me.
None.

Really? You're shocked that a toy company with a very small TV-show division doesn't give enough of a shit about piracy to want to destroy the entire Internet to stop it?

 

[kouriichi]

Im broke anyway... >.>;
Might as well join in.

But i would anyway. Im not into anything coming out other then ME3, and i can wait on that.

 

[Hasido]

well now i can justify my inability to buy things.

 

[Zakarath]

Nope, not doing this. sure, I disagree with SOPA, but I'm not going to starve myself of entertainment in some boycott that will in all likelyhood be overlooked by the companies. Besides, it's not just the publishers that hurt when you don't buy games. The devs suffer for it too.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Really? You're shocked that a toy company with a very small TV-show division doesn't give enough of a shit about piracy to want to destroy the entire Internet to stop it?

Given their affiliations, contract liasons, and business practices, yes. That does surprise me.
What you see and have described is far from the extent of their operations.

Don't forget; they hold movie licenses and titles too. One extremely lucrative one at that.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Does Netflix count?

No, not going to bother. It requires momentum to be effective and it does not seem to have it. Also I want Mass Effect.

It's because so many people have that attitude that these things fail to gain momentum. It's a self-fulling prophecy really. Also, could you really not wait another month for Mass Effect?

 

[Nooh]

I can do the whole not buying thing, but if they're asking me to not use Spotify, they can go fuck themselves...

 

[Tanis]

I'm a college student, EVERY month feels like 'Black March' to me.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Does Netflix count?

No, not going to bother. It requires momentum to be effective and it does not seem to have it. Also I want Mass Effect.

It's because so many people have that attitude that these things fail to gain momentum. It's a self-fulling prophecy really. Also, could you really not wait another month for Mass Effect?

Yes, but the fact of the matter is that whether I kept or abandoned this attitude nothing would change. Sure everyone deciding together that their choice doesn't matter has an effect, but me simply deciding not to follow along with that logic is not much of a solution to the problem.

I could wait another month, but I'd like to make the most of my brief break between quarters.

It has to start somewhere, dude.

 

[Bomberman4000]

I don't agree with the idea behind Black March, and I don't think it will work even if people do participate (thought like most people I think some will say they're going to, but won't) so I'm not participating from a philosophical perspective. However, from a practical standpoint, I work a minimum wage job and won't see a paycheck again until the 16h, and I've got student loans to pay so I won't be buying anything because of that. If I had funds, I wouldn't participate, but my lack of funds is forcing me to participate.

Then again, I work at a movie theater so I get tickets for free, and there's a library within walking distance from my house so I don't necessarily need to buy books. However I'm always looking for new artists to support on iTunes so even I don't buy games, movies, or books, I've got to get my music.

EDIT: A thought just occurred that if people simply "put off" buying something they know they want (say, Mass Effect 3 for example) then they're just going to get it in April leading to a spike in April sales. What does that really prove?

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Really? You're shocked that a toy company with a very small TV-show division doesn't give enough of a shit about piracy to want to destroy the entire Internet to stop it?

Given their affiliations, contract liasons, and business practices, yes. That does surprise me.
What you see and have described is far from the extent of their operations.

Don't forget; they hold movie licenses and titles too. One extremely lucrative one at that.

Yeah, but they don't really own those movies; the movie companies do, and I reckon they're the ones making 90% of the money off them too. It's probably pretty close to the relationship between the Ted Geisel estate and the assclowns responsible for that Lorax movie.

 

[Bomberman4000]

But would diminished first quarter sales really damper stock of a company more than a potentially higher than normal second quarter could recover? Or is it in stock the first quarter is more noticed and more reacted to than the second?

Admittedly I don't know much about the stock market or anything like that, but it seems like if people are making a commitment to not buy things in March, then buying them in April, thus leading to a potentially higher than normal second quarter could even things out rather than making a long term impact on the entertainment industry.

Again, this is just a rudimentary understanding of the boycott, but as I said earlier I'm not going to buy anything much more than some music anyway. I just don't think this is going to have the effect people are hoping it will.

 

[Double A]

I'm gonna only buy games on sale on Steam this month, but I was planning on doing that anyway.

Routine FTW.

Since EA sucks but BioWare makes good games, I will be buying ME3 used. Take that!

Listen, I've got this vegetable stuck behind one of my molars, I think it's a bit of onion. It's driving me absolutely nuts, and your thread isn't helping the cause here. If you want to remove a vegetable from your teeth, you need to pluck it out, what good is protesting? I'm supposed to just sit here and complain until a dentist comes to my aid, terrible idea dude, horrible horrible idea.

I'll use a toothpick thank you very much.

Are you advocating blowing up the offending parties? Because that's the only conclusion I can come to here, considering we're dealing with large corporations instead of a scrap of food.

 

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

Being piss poor makes this protest a cinch for me. You can all thank me later.

[sub][sub]Moo! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9iIgQN5uZE][/sub][/sub]

 

[Nexxis]

I'd pretty much be participating, but it's because I don't have much of a choice being a broke college student and all, lol. However, if Guild Wars 2 comes out this month (which I very much doubt it will) then I WILL be buying that.