House Kills SOPA (For Now)

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"In a surprise move, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to the huge online protest and the White House threatening to veto the bill if it had passed. But don't celebrate yet. PIPA (the Senate's version of SOPA) is still up for consideration."

[Server]

Very good news for now ..

[Ambrocious]

Good news indeed. Only one problem....they just don't stop when they try to push a bill threw congress. My guess is that they will pass something similar in the future only WORSE than SOPA. That's been how it has been going as of late at least.

[beer]

I also want to note that OP's post is actually from a blogger, and the bill is shelved not killed.

Vigilance should still remain high because there is another bill called PIPA that is basically Senate's version of SOPA(also contains DNS blocking).

Will post update when more info is available.

[beer]

Sopa plans set to be shelved as Obama comes out against piracy legislation

Congress ready to drop Sopa vote after White House says it would not support legislation that threatens openness of internet

Summary, full article at source:

"Any provision covering internet intermediaries such as online advertising networks, payment processors, or search engines must be transparent and designed to prevent overly broad private rights of action that could encourage unjustified litigation that could discourage startup businesses and innovative firms from growing," said the White House.

The Obama administration also came out firmly against any plans to target the Domain Name System (DNS), a foundation of internet security, in order to tackle sites accused of piracy. Any proposed legislation "must not tamper with the technical architecture of the internet," said the White House.

The move effectively scuppers Sopa for now, and puts pressure on legislators ahead of a Senate vote on the e-Parasite act scheduled for January 24.

In a statement, Issa said: "While I remain concerned about Senate action on the Protect IP Act, I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by this House."

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[DKT27]

Internet wins a victory as SOPA is shelved

The controversial bill that has been causing mayhem on the Internet, The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA for short, has been set aside until the House is able to come to a consensus.

It’s okay folks, the Internet can finally relax as today the highly controversial SOPA bill was set aside.

The Stop Online Piracy Act has had the Internet in a rage for the past few months. Several companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook all highly opposed the bill which fundamentally gave the government power to shut down sites that were in breach of copyright – the bigger issue was that the bill also gave power for them to take down websites even if they linked to a website that had copyrighted material on it.

There were big efforts by the people to boycott companies that supported the bill. Popular social website Reddit fronted the boycotts and led a large initiative to reduce the amount of domain names that GoDaddy was selling. The attack worked and after GoDaddy attempted to brush it off but they eventually fell and pulled their support of the SOPA bill. GoDaddy was just one of the targets.

Whilst the Internet was a rage, the White House failed to give a proper position on SOPA, until now. Yesterday the Obama administration responded to a petition that was posted on the ‘We The People’ section of the White House website. “While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” The statement read. “Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small”

Darrell Issa, house oversight chairman said that Majority Leader Eric Cantor vowed that the house would not vote on the bill until there is a general consensus on the bill. “While I remain concerned about Senate action on the Protect IP Act, I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by this House,” That said, the politicians should have realized by the outrage of the American people and the world that the idea of SOPA was a bad one from the start.

Google and Reddit have already threatened blackouts in opposition of the bill, a move that would have cost both companies a huge sum of money, however, it's money both companies were willing to risk in order to make sure SOPA didn't pass. It’s still possible that SOPA could come back at some point; after all it was only shelved.

Good riddance.

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[myidisbb]

jjoker tryign to take credit. what a joke. note he didnt say a think about the senate version.

[beer]

I have a strong feeling they are employing the "let's not talk about it right now, but maybe later" strategy to prevent the bill getting killed. SOPA was withdrawed way too fast without much of a fight from the people who were so confident in pushing it. I smell a rat.