No E3 until ESA Drops Support of SOPA/Transcript

On-screen text: SOPA may be temporarily "shelved" but the fight is just beginning

Everything said in the following video relates to PIPA as well as SOPA

Take a stand against the ESA's support of SOPA and PIPA

Craig Skistimas: My name is Craig Skistimas, I run the gaming website ScrewAttack.com.

Graham Stark: Hi, my name is Graham. I'm at Loading Ready Run. I'm a web video producer.

James Portnow: My name is James Portnow. I write a show called Extra Credits.

Daniel Floyd: My name is Daniel Floyd. I am the editor for Extra Credits.

Mark Kern: My name is Mark Kern and I am the CEO of Red 5 Studios.

Skistimas: Our ability to bring you original gaming content depends on a free and open internet.

Stark: Our ability to entertain you depends on a free and open internet.

Portnow: My ability to... talk about what more we can do with our medium depends on a free and open internet.

Kern: My ability to create online games like Firefall depends on a free and open internet.

Skistimas: SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, threatens to end all that.

Portnow: We need you.

Stark: We need you.

Skistimas: We need you. [points at camera]

Kern: We need your help to fight it.

Portnow: The ESA,

Stark: The Entertainment Software Association,

Floyd: The lobbying arm of the video game industry,

Portnow: Has thrown its weight behind supporting SOPA.

Stark: True or not,

Kern: It's believed that the ESA represents the game industry.

Stiskimas: And right now, the ESA is supporting SOPA.

Floyd: Alright, so, E3 is, like, gaming's biggest event, is actually run by the ESA, and is in fact their biggest source of revenue.

Stiskimas: So to attend or cover E3 is to financially support the ESA, which supports SOPA.

Kern: If they won't withdraw support of SOPA, let's withdraw support from them.

Floyd: Alright, so here's what we're gonna do.

Stark: Please ask your favorite gaming site or content creator.

Floyd: Ask your favorite game reviewer, your favorite game journalism site...

Kern: Or YouTube channel, developer, publisher, not to attend or cover E3, the ESA's biggest money-making tool unless they change their stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Stiskimas: Even more, ask your favorite video game developers or publishers that upload their support from SOPA publically, to also uphold their monetary support from E3.

Floyd: This is the most effective way that they can show our dissatisfaction with ESA supporting SOPA.

Portnow: I believe in a free and open internet.

Stiskimas: I believe in a free and open internet.

Stark: We believe in a free internet.

Floyd: I believe in a free internet.

Kern: I believe in a free internet, and I oppose SOPA.

Stiskimas: And I will not be attending or covering E3 until the ESA changes their stance on SOPA.

Stark: I will not be attending or covering E3 until the ESA removes their support.

Portnow: I will not be attending or covering E3 until the ESA removes their support.

Floyd: I will not be attending [counts activities on fingers] or covering this year's E3 until the ESA pulls their support from SOPA.

Kern: I will not be attending E3 until the ESA removes their support from this legislation.

On-screen text: Ask your favorite video game website, YouTube channel or personalities to not attend to cover E3 until the ESA changes their support of SOPA and PIPA

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