As alot of you know today is “Blackout SOPA” day, where a lot of websites are letting the government and world what sites could look like if SOPA and PIPA pass. I don’t ever ask people to download an app but I am asking now. Please download this app and let the companies that support SOPA know how we feel about this crap! I think more people should be aware what SOPA is and what this could bring to ALL of us internet users. My daughter was asking her Facebook friends what Sopa was and I believe a lot of people don’t know what it really is! Anyhoo…. enough ranting and more about the app.
The app allows you to scan barcodes of items, which it will then tell you whether or not that product or company is in support or related to the bills in question. A simple, yet effective means of showing your distate for the legislation. The app is pulling data about companies and the bills from the developer’s website and will be updated frequently.
Download link from the Android Market
Description (from the developer)
This application will help you identify goods of companies which according to publically avaliable sources appear to have been supporting SOPA as of approx. January 5th 2011, but the list will be updated as we go.
It is intended as an aid to identifying such products but should not be relied upon. You should carry out your own check in case of any product this app indicates is a product of a company supporting
SOPA is not.
Please visit our site at www.nomoresopa.com for more information
Donating: We’ve had questions about donating, if you want to donate go here: http://nomoresopa.com/wp/?page_id=25 Donations will go to pizza and beer for long nights improving the application.
IMPORTANT: To all the folks asking why it requires other permissions- this app ONLY requires internet permissions. It does require the barcode scanner app made by the ZXing (google/open source) team to be installed on your phone, and nothing else – this app does the image processing to decode the barcode. If you’d like, you may use Google Goggles instead of ZXing and it will work fine. Our app makes one request over the internet to our server to find if the product is a SOPA supporter. We do not access any other data.
Update: We’re working to incorporate the great feature requests that people have asked for. We’re implementing a second version of the app right now, which will support multiple boycotts, a contact the company feature, and has a more sophisticated search functionality so accuracy will be improved. Thanks for all the interest and bear with us while we get a newer, fancier version out.