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Originally Posted by Zebra
Did you watch the live feed of the hearing today? They are going to ram it through tomorrow and there really isn't anyone who is going to stop them. Several members of the panel put up some resistance and offered quite a few amendments trying to limit what this bill could do and every time they were horribly outvoted. Some of the statements made during the hearing were scary as fuck.
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I watched the hearings too and my take was quite different. Most of the bill's opponents repeatably cited existing DMCA laws as being quite adequate.
Huh???
As soon as I heard that I knew they were full of shit.
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Originally Posted by Zebra
A few of the main backers of this bill specifically pointed out that they wanted the protection of porn copyright holders to be the absolute last thing that was defended with taxpayer money.
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I wouldn't worry too much about that.
An amendment that would have directed the Attorney Generals office not to enforce SOPA provisions to protect the copyright of pornographers was voted down 18 to 9
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