There has been overwhelmingly news reporting in SOPA issue so, I will keep it short. SOPA has been postponed for now, but notice it is NOT cancelled. I am not sure it is victory or time to celebration yet. For time being SOPA and PIPA has been on hold for now. Here is the recap.
All that said, neither PIPA nor SOPA are totally dead, with both houses of Congress postponing rather than cancelling outright votes on measures to help content owners to enforce their copyrights online. The music and movie industries will continue to lobby on the issue of web-blocking, though their political allies in Washington will presumably propose they put a bit more effort into crafting safeguards to satisfy legit online operations that they would not be hindered by any new web-block system, and that claims of infringement by rights owners would be subject to proper scrutiny.
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