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We (ShinyGoldShoes) as a company are transferring all the domains that we manage away from GoDaddy and footing the bill on principle. GoDaddy is the largest domain registrar in the world and has just helped the US congress write the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) bills. These Acts would more or less put big corporate American film, music and media rights owners (ie Sony, Turner, News Corp) as the censors of the internet, allowing them to take down websites if they deemed anything offensive, possibly infringing copyrights, not pro-corporate interest or displayed a representation or derivative work of a copyrighted work.
This would carry with it as much as 3 years in prison PER INFRINGEMENT. That would mean that if you sang a very tone-deaf version of a Michael Jackson song in your bathrobe and made a video of it, thought it was funny and posted it on YouTube and posted that YouTube video on your website and your friends also had links to your website (not your video) on their sites your video could be taken off YouTube, your website could be taken down and all your friends sites (because they linked to websites offering derivative works of copyrighted material) could be taken down and you could potentially go to jail and pay a very large fine. (Even if you are not US-based or a US citizen it would affect you because somewhere along the link of servers and registrars SOMETHING was based in the US in this heinous act of piracy, thus would have a US criminal record possibly without ever setting foot in America.)
GoDaddy, after pouring time and money into this bill has now backed out and said that because their clients fled after they officially supported these bills (and they didn't want to lose any more clients/money) they no longer support it (although, they're not against it). Because of their clearly hypocritical and cheap PR move and just dirty ideas and business practices we no longer are willing to do business with them.
Thank you for your understanding,
Joel Urbina
Creative and technical director
ShinyGoldShoes
   
Architectural visualization using Blender.
Testing Houdini Ocean Simulation Tools with Blender.
So everybody, here are some of our newest 3d architectural visualizations.
Today the new ShinyGoldShoes Joomla-based website is going live... we've been using our custom-built CMS for the last 8 months, but have shifted over to Joomla, because we're wanting to create a more 'community-focused experience'... What does that mean? Well... mostly, we want to put everything together and launch the new Open Creativity section of our website, which will contain lots of information about open-source software, community-focused design and development, free stuff and a lovely client area.
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