SOPA Goes Back To the Drawing Board, PIPA Postponed

[Daniel]

SOPA has been sent back to the drawing board. 'The move came shortly after the Senate postponed a key vote on the companion PIPA bill scheduled for next week and amid calls for consensus before Congress moves forward on any legislation to address the problem of foreign piracy websites,' as written by the Los Angeles Times today. Hopefully the next draft of this bill will create a better foundation to stop piracy and not just assert control over the internet.

Support for the bill eroded on Wednesday as several of its co-sponsors withdrew their support. The issue is not over, however; statements were issued by both Senator Patrick Leahy and Rep. Lamar Smith indicating that they still want to find solutions to online piracy, and Smith also wrote an editorial piece for CNN to explain why he thinks such legislation is necessary. The SOPA issue was raised at the recent GOP debate, and all four candidates spoke against it.

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Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on 21st Jan 2012. SOPA Goes Back To the Drawing Board, PIPA Postponed SOPA has been sent back to the drawing board. 'The move came shortly after the Senate postponed a key vote on the companion PIPA bill scheduled for next week and amid calls for consensus before Congress moves forward on any legislation to address the problem of foreign piracy websites,' as written by the Los Angeles Times today. Hopefully the next draft of this bill will create a better foundation to stop piracy and not just assert control over the internet. Support for the bill eroded on Rating: 5

[Music_Machine]

Very good information my friend. I am very worried about this. The freedom of internet is going down. We need to kil this f"$#"$...P.I.P.A and S.O.P.A. I don't think the filehost died soon but if meaupload is dead...the the other go to the same road. Thanks for this information. Everybody against P.I.P.A and S.O.P.A...

[ceekeigh]

They should review it carefully or permanently kill it.

[DJboutit]

I say kill it now or Anonymous is gonna fuck US up & expose a lot of classified shit & maybe if this lame shit does pass down the road WWIII US vs like 10 other countries in late 2012 or early to mid 2013

Anonymous will make Wikileaks seem small time Kill SOPA & PIPA now

[ExtremeHD]

this is only what smith think! that the only fking douche bag think he all clever and smart. how many laws do we have? 1bils 2 bils? until there no more free doom , until the day that no one on earth lives? everyday someone wake up wrong side of the bed and "Ding ding i need to make a new law and here this is what i want" shyt.. this is just mess up really! deep down we all know this is all wrong .. Why wasting mils dollar doing stupid get warrants and arresting and go through all this crap!. they could use that mils do something better . and everyone know that. Every entertainment industry make mils bils of dollars! what else do they want more?? maybe 100,000 uploaders, together we all might make 2-3 mils a years tops. i wish they think out the box. some people have their own talent. they expect everyone with out high lvl of education work like a dog nine to five. those douche bags they all sit up there doing sh@t and get big checks everyday! mils of vote for no on sopa and pipa what else do they want more? take out everyone freedom? sorry i dotn want mention about Illuminati they want to kill 90% people on earth and save other 10% that rich ass people live? this all just beginning after 911. after everything we all know there will be world war 3. there will be time that all hacker united for a big project, "Cyber Blacklist Revenge" war that will end and everyone gain sh*t. sorry i got lots of thing to say sorry i sound angry but i really am. i wish those burn in hell .

[Daniel]

We need innovation from the media companies; they need to embrace the digital platform and build distribution systems around it. Piracy will drop drastically if they make the media easy and cheap to buy.