Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who co-sponsored the Protect-IP Act (PIPA) that served as the Senate equivalent of the SOPA bill, has officially withdrawn his support of PIPA and called for more discussion before new copyright legislation is introduced.
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The intent of SOPA and PIPA was to do the same thing regarding foreign-based sites.
The Senate bill (PIPA) was pulled from the Senate floor before there could be a vote.
We had opposed the predecessor bill to SOPA and PIPA for months, but with little public attention.
Facebook opposes SOPA and PIPA, and we will continue to oppose any laws that will hurt the internet.
We've scared (Congress) from doing anything as egregious as SOPA and PIPA again.
Its counterpart in the Senate is PIPA (or the Protect IP Act.) Both bills are controversial, and with good reason.
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It worked against SOPA and PIPA, and now web users are turning the blackout against one of their own: Twitter.
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As opposed to DMCA, where the focus is on violating content, SOPA and PIPA focus on links to violating sites.
Now the Recording Industry Association of America has voiced its own dissatisfaction with alternatives to the SOPA and PIPA bills.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed the PIPA legislation in May, but it has been awaiting floor action ever since.
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Sopa, along with the Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa), are two other bills being considered by members of the US Congress.
Netflix has issued statement distancing itself from SOPA, PIPA, or other anti-piracy legislation, but this damage might be hard to undo.
The recent fight over anti-online piracy bills SOPA and PIPA have left some lawmakers hesitant to be seen as regulating the Internet.
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Reid announced that PIPA would not be brought for a Senate vote.
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The bill and its sister PIPA were eventually killed because of the backlash, but now another strain is creeping its way through Congress.
Lurie also said his company relied on an open Internet and that innovation would be hampered if SOPA and PIPA passed.
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This week, SOPA and PIPA were threatening to cripple the Internet.
After the failure of SOPA and its Senate counterpart PIPA, many in Congress are now more watchful of proposals that cause such broad, collateral damage.
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Team PIPA wants to raise funds for a more universal solution.
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The two boxes trotted out for demo day by creators Kate Pipa and Shivangi Shah covered the science and technology portions of the STEM equation.
Not long ago the video game lobbying group remained staunch supporters of both SOPA and PIPA. Piracy, they claimed, was hurting the booming video game industry.
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who are leading a bi-partisan fight in Congress to block passage of dangerous new copyright legislation (SOPA and PIPA).
Wikipedia, which attracts millions of hits every day, is opposed to the US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) being debated by Congress.
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To be fair, with legislation like SOPA and PIPA floating about, tech companies in particular have a lot to lose if they fall asleep at the wheel.
Surely PIPA must have eroded those property and contract rules.
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The aforementioned PIPA is the Senate version of the bill.
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The internet blackout blackout of Wikipedia, Reddit and Craigslist made giant news yesterday, and contributed to a number of senators swinging over to oppose the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills.
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Earlier this year, while congress battled over SOPA and PIPA, Netflix largely stayed out of the spotlight, and vacillated on its support of the acts until it took a publicly neutral stance.
On Wednesday, popular sites staged a black-out to protest two anti-piracy bills which resulted in over a dozen politicians pulling their support, leaving the future of SOPA and PIPA looking bleak.
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