In a January 6 article, Bleeding Cool cites Marvel as having come under criticism for supporting SOPA, anti-piracy legislation that, if passed, could impinge crippling freedom of speech restrictions, shutting down websites just for being suspected of linking to a site with a copyright infringing link on it. This means YouTube and other popular sites could go bye bye. Even Marvel's OWN site, according to Bleeding Cool.
The article theorizes punishing Marvel by hitting the company in its pocket book.
On Saturday, January 7, Marvel's letting folks buy a $0.99 comics app, and they get a $5 coupon redeemable at nearby comic shops. But what if people just bought the app and never used the coupon?
Tomorrow, you can buy a Marvel digital comic on the Marvel Comics App for at little as 99 cents, and get a $5 coupon for your nearest participating comic store. Buy up to $5 of Marvel comics, use the voucher, and you’ll get them free.
But the article pitches this idea:
"But what if all you did, ever, was get those free Marvel comics and never buy another Marvel comic again? And what if everyone you knew did it. Downloaded the Marvel Comics App, got the coupon, that would be it. What it 100,000 people did it? Marvel would be down $400,000. It would get a lot of people into comic stores around the country, and who knows, some may break and suddenly start buying Marvel. But that’s a large chunk of change to make up."
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