Although not supporting it helps the cause, opposing it gets us that much further.

You misread the sentence.  “Piracy hurts their game developing partners,” is what he was saying.

I will not be ending my boycott of your company. Nvidia is  using the so called corporate “SPEAK” that I hear every day at work. Nvidia is trying to please both sides of the issue. When this happens I tend not to trust a company who does the tightrope walk on the fence called SOPA. Trying to appease us by stating you do not support SOPA has me wonder what do you support? What is it that you like about SOPA? Must be something since you are trying so hard to keep that balance on that SOPA fence. Hence the reason why my boycott will continue. I am but one person, one person who helps a lot of people with their computers and hardware. One person who has a voice and is not afraid to be on the OPPOSE side of the fence when it comes to SOPA. 

They specifically state they don’t believe it’s the right solution to the problem… How much opposition do you want?

Note it says that they do not believe it is the right solution to the problem. That would be… opposition to the law, would it not?

To further elaborate, SOTA is a solution to piracy as bombing a country is a solution to a crime commited in the home country. Overreacting (or so it seems, awfully profitable for many organizations for an overreaction) is NOT anything to do when dealing with editing constitutional rights. That’s fascism, in the fact that it’s saying what you can and cannot express. Better solution for clearing piracy? I don’t know. but there HAS to be a better way. More secure games/software, that requires you to clear it with the manufacturer before you can even access anything to do with the game, maybe. Extreme steps still, but better than fascism that affects even those that are or aren’t affected by piracy to begin with.

As I said, been fighting this a loooong time. So I have much to say on the topic. Apologies for the lengthy posts.

I’m also totally against the SOPA regulation since it’s much more harmful than good to limit all forms of media and pretty much the entire internet for something stupid such as referencing a product that is copyrighted or using a slogan that a company has.         For instance if you liked a song from one of your favorite artists you must pay the artist and ask permission to sing it and post it on the internet.    
 
This is why I’m against it,   I’m not with piracy since I do agree you should pay for what you actually like , however they really should start making demos again so people don’t waste 50-60 a shot for things they don’t really like and people would start buying again.

As for only not supporting is like saying,   oh I don’t think this is the best idea *because the rest of the world said so*  is not the way you do it.    It’s either Yes, I think it should happen or No, this is wrong and invades peoples privacy and prevents people from expressing themselves and possible prevent new comers from marking ideas or business relations because it is copyrighted by someone else or “appears” to be similar.  >.> not like someone hasn’t already attempted most things at least once fail or succeed.

I love how people want to punish nvidia for not wanting to get involved.

We should bomb the french for not helping in Iraq too.

I hope SOPA passes, You guys really deserve it.

Not outright opposing SOPA is about to hurt YOU directly. The customer is always right, and I guarantee 99% of your customers oppose SOPA.

“Are you _against_ it, or just _not for_ it?”

Same thing, they don’t like it. You’ve got a quote for your newspaper headlines now move on.

Being a member of a group does not mean that group represents that companies interest.

The UK is part of the EU. Are we bound to agree to every decision the EU makes???? NO!

Use your brain.

Us citizens come out and eat some pepper spray when they disagree. Its really not very ambiguous where us citizens stand on important issues like free speech, human rights, due process and protecting the democracy.

As a consumer, and regular NVIDIA customer I urge NVIDIA to actively oppose SOPA rather than just decline to support it.

Seriously? That’s your example? 

 Internet community should stop using semantic  arguments for boycott against companies that are _clearly_  disagreeing with SOPA.  

“hurr duur they didn’t say they oppose SOPA hurr duurr boycot !!! hurr durr”.  I mean don’t get me wrong, but it is hurting the cause more then it is helping. What we can expect fro companies nVidia to do , besides making the statement like this?? Kudos to nVidia for publicly saying that they don’t support  SOPA.

Thanks for the condescending reply, gramps, but these “newspapers” you speak of?  They sound like a quaint device from your generation, currently used to tell more untruths than truth.

If you were up with the times, you’d know this — oh but you’re reading newspapers, not Pew polls about where modern people get their news.

NVIDIA:  A possible (and more appropriate, imnsho) response would be for NVIDIA to craft an open letter to the ESA denouncing SOPA…and then calling for more ESA members to become signatores.

Think about it — you guys would be Heros, capital “H” and all.

As great as this is. I have to agree with Levi. Saying and doing are two things that have a huge gap between then for this concern. If you truly do value your customers as much as we enjoy doing business by being your consumers, then show us that you appreciate our business with you and publicly announce that you are against SOPA. I bet you most of those “hollywood freaks” that are for SOPA buy lots of NVIDIA products for their computers and gadgets, and when they see that you are going public about being against SOPA, we have that much more of a chance to change their minds and be able to get rid of SOPA. Thank You.

Why would they? The bill is even named 
Stop Online Piracy Act.. Piracy (while talking about internet/computers etc) = copyright infringement

Buying NVIDIA next time!

…who also support SOPA, either in word or by their campaign contributions.  The problem with voting with your dollars is that often, you don’t have the option to buy from a company that agrees with you or disagrees with you, it’s often the case that your choices are “buy from a company that disagrees with you” or “don’t buy anything”.

Rather than punish one company for speaking out for something you’re against, you’d end up rewarding another company for quietly supporting something you’re against.  I guarantee you both the major video card retailers have supported the political campaigns of SOPA supporters, and are probably still very much in support of it, morally and financially. The only lesson learned here is that like many other SOPA supporters, they’ll continue to quietly support it rather than issuing press releases or blog posts about it.

I don’t mean to discourage the idea, but I think it’s important to realize the situation we’re actually in.

This is worth absolute gold, It is nice to know this and you will therefore have earned at least this costumers support in the near future. I am glad that you realise that it is not the best way to stop piracy (it is not even a good way to do that).
I will even forgive you for your logos presentation in many games being unskippable.

PS: Nvidia is now diamonds.

Its corporate speak for “we’re going to sit this one out while the ESA does our dirty work”

While as _the_ old-time nvidia buyer, I have to say that I like nvidia not supporting sopa, but if ATI states that they will be AGAINST sopa, I will consider buying an ATI card instead.
Never wanted to try ATI thanks to nvidia’s great Linux driver, but I might want to see how ATI is doing on Linux now…

I specifically state that the sky is purple. Stating and doing are two different things. Anyone can state anything as emphatically as they want, but it holds no power, no force, is pointless unless they suit words to actions.

What requires that every single company on the planet spend resources on a political view? They’ve stated their view. They have the right to not get involved.