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In his Design Notes post, Cysero established that ArtixEntertainment is against SOPA/PIPA. These are bills introduced in the US legislature that seek to prevent online piracy, but represent a gross abuse of power by the United States Government. These bills, if passed, would give the US government the power to take down websites suspected of hosting copyrighted material without due process. For example, Twitter could be taken down because of one user using a comic book character (like, say, Batman or Deadpool). Individual web users face serious consequences as well, with performance of a copyrighted work (eg. a video of yourself covering a popular song) becoming a felony with punishments up to 5 years in federal prison. Even works that fall under Fair Use or Satire or derivative works face serious legal consequences.

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s for AE and ED,Its so lousy of a bill that if they DO make an arrest for something as out of place as covering a pop-song... they should expect a LOT of resistance and I'm sure someone in office will be scapegoated and removed from office... that's how bad I think this bill is.

And about AE and ED, they should be relatively safe after cutting out famous and copyrighted ideas SUCH AS THE CAKE IS A LIE. I do see some good coming from this though, pirated property like songs from your favourite band will cease and they can success further and stay around. It may also promote originality in productions like our AE games, so I won't be absolute about it until we see some considerable issues arise.

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I think the thing AE fears is that, SOPA/PIPA affects them not just with their Puns.
If I for example upload something of EpicDuel and I put a song with it on Youtube,
both Youtube and AE could be sued for copyright infrigment even if unintentional...

at least that's what I think