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(Reuters) - Lawmakers on Friday indefinitely postponed anti-piracy legislation that pits Hollywood against Silicon Valley, two days after major Internet companies staged an online protest by blacking out parts of prominent websites.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid postponed a showdown vote in his chamber on the Protect Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA for short, that had been scheduled for January 24.
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In a brief statement, Reid said there was no reason why concerns about the legislation cannot be resolved. He offered no new date for the vote.
Reid expressed hope on Friday that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, who has been shepherding the bill through Congress, could help resolve differences in the legislation.
"I am optimistic that we can reach a compromise in the coming weeks," Reid said.
Leahy said in a statement that he was committed to addressing online piracy and hoped other members of Congress would work with him to get a bill signed into law this year.
"But the day will come when the Senators who forced this move will look back and realize they made a knee-jerk reaction to a monumental problem," he said.
I think its more like twisting the knife than jerking knee's
Originally posted by ZeroUnlmtd
sounds like they're buying time for "anonymous" to strike a few more times, then SOPA will be passed even though Anonymous did not claim responsibility for the attacks like CNN says they did.
Originally posted by undo
they're gonna stuff that in some other program, like a social program of some kind that all the socialists want.
THEN it will pass.
This is what Democracy looks like when it works!
Originally posted by undo
they're gonna stuff that in some other program, like a social program of some kind that all the socialists want.
THEN it will pass.
.but we need to be right here again when this crap rears it's ugly head somewhere down the line, so we may defeat it again.
Their favorite tactic for legislation that won't pass is to attach it to a defense spending bill.
(Reuters) - Some members of Congress switched sides to oppose antipiracy legislation as protests blanketed the Internet on Wednesday, turning Wikipedia dark and putting black slashes on Google and other sites as if they had been censored
Content providers who favor the anti-piracy measures, such as Hollywood and the music industry, were scrambling to win back public opinion and official support.
Wikipedia, the world's free online encyclopedia, shut down for a day. Google and others used the black censorship bars to draw attention to what had until recently been an obscure and technical legislative proposal to curb access to overseas websites that traffic in stolen content or counterfeit goods.