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发帖数: 12906 | 1 Senate Postpones Vote on Internet Piracy BillBy JONATHAN WEISMAN
Published: January 20, 2012
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DiggRedditTumblrPermalink. WASHINGTON — Senator Harry Reid, the majority
leader, on Friday called off a scheduled vote on the online antipiracy bill
that had rallied the World Wide Web and rocked Capitol Hill, and House
leaders took steps to slow legislation as well.
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Taking to the medium that helped organize extensive protests against the
legislation, Mr. Reid, Democrat of Nevada, announced a delay in the vote via
the social media Web site Twitter. But he indicated the issue, which had
been scheduled for a vote Tuesday, had not died.
“There’s no reason that legitimate issues raised about Protect I.P. can’t
be resolved,” he wrote, referring to the legislation by its shorthand name
. “Counterfeiting & piracy cost 1000s of #jobs yearly. Americans rightfully
expect to be fairly compensated 4 their work. I’m optimistic that we can
reach compromise on Protect I.P. in coming week.”
In the House, Representative Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who is
chairman of the Judiciary Committee, called off plans to formally draft his
version of the antipiracy bill next month.
After vowing two days ago to move forward, Mr. Smith said in a statement on
Friday: “The committee remains committed to finding a solution to the
problem of online piracy that protects American intellectual property and
innovation.” But he added, “The House Judiciary Committee will postpone
consideration of the legislation until there is wider agreement on a
solution.”
The Protect I.P. Act and its counterpart in the House, the Stop Online
Piracy Act, had broad bipartisan support when they were drafted by Mr. Smith
and Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the
Judiciary Committee. The bills were pushed hard by the Hollywood studios,
recording industry, book publishing world and United States Chamber of
Commerce as antidotes to rampant piracy of American cultural wares by
offshore Web sites.
But many Internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit,
saw the bills as a threat, and said they would stifle creativity on the
Internet while forcing search engines and social media to become police
officers for the Department of Justice. Other outlets, like Wikipedia,
objected to any proposed laws that could crimp the free flow of information
on the Internet.
With new-economy aplomb, the Internet giants rallied their troops to rise up
against Washington stalwarts like the Motion Picture Association of America
and the Recording Industry Association of America. What had started as a
nonpartisan issue began turning to Republican advantage, as Republicans led
the flight away from the bill.
By Thursday night, senior Republican staff members were bragging that the
remaining supporters of the bills were largely Democrats, even though
members of both parties had helped draft them.
Mr. Leahy went along with Mr. Reid’s decision to back off, but he made it
clear he was doing so reluctantly.
“More time will pass with jobs lost and economies hurt by foreign criminals
who are stealing American intellectual property and selling it back to
American consumers,” he said in a statement.
“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
added. “Somewhere in China today, in Russia today, and in many other
countries that do not respect American intellectual property, criminals who
do nothing but peddle in counterfeit products and stolen American content
are smugly watching how the United States Senate decided it was not even
worth debating how to stop the overseas criminals from draining our economy.
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