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Bucky Katt

2012-01-16 01:25:26 AM

Hmmm common sense might break out? We'll see.

Tenebreux

2012-01-16 01:41:52 AM

I'm guessing the MPAA and the RIAA are twiddling their moustaches and going "Curses! Foiled again!", but as you'd expect, fully expect to try again next week.

Penlid

2012-01-16 02:23:32 AM

What about PIPA?

Is this a feint to get the other horrible 'anti piracy' act pushed through?

Amos Quito

2012-01-16 02:44:34 AM

First Amendment given a temporary stay of execution?

GAT_00

2012-01-16 08:35:48 AM

I don't believe a goddamn thing Eric Cantor says, so I'm not celebrating yet.

sprawl15

2012-01-16 09:44:22 AM

TFA: Controversial online piracy bill shelved until ~~'consensus' is found~~ the internet stops looking through SOPA supporters' download history

FTFTFA.

erveek

2012-01-16 09:46:30 AM

sprawl15: TFA: Controversial online piracy bill shelved until ~~'consensus' is found the internet stops looking through SOPA supporters' download history~~the check clears.

FTFTFA.

Still needed fixing.

shinji3i

2012-01-16 09:47:04 AM

So they're just going to wait a few months until people forget about it and then sneak the legislation in through something?

sendtodave

2012-01-16 09:47:15 AM

For once, Congress uses it's inability to get anything done for good instead of evil!

erveek

2012-01-16 09:49:01 AM

Penlid: What about PIPA?

Is this a feint to get the other horrible 'anti piracy' act pushed through?

What will we do if PIPA passes?

/all's right with the world.

bulldg4life

2012-01-16 09:51:13 AM

What...they couldn't find a massive appropriations bill to slip it in to?

FlyPanAm

2012-01-16 09:51:52 AM

shinji3i: So they're just going to wait a few months until people forget about it and then sneak the legislation in through something?

www.japanator.com

imontheinternet

2012-01-16 09:53:54 AM

sendtodave: For once, Congress uses it's inability to get anything done for good instead of evil!

Just as the Founding Fathers intended.

Shadowknight

2012-01-16 09:55:36 AM

I want to be happy about this, but I am far to cynical to neleive that they won't either pass PIPA instead, try to sneak this in later, or just pass something worse later. Probably while naming it something with the words "liberty," "security," or "freedom" in the name too.

IXI Jim IXI

2012-01-16 09:55:50 AM

GAT_00: I don't believe a goddamn thing Eric Cantor says, so I'm not celebrating yet.

Yep...pretty much THIS.

Wasteland

2012-01-16 09:55:58 AM

shinji3i: So they're just going to wait a few months until people forget about it and then sneak the legislation in through something?

"After November" would be my guess. Lamar Smith's blustering aside, SOPA has turned into too big of a hornet nest for congress to stick its collective dick into, in an election year.

kukukupo

2012-01-16 09:56:17 AM

imontheinternet: sendtodave: For once, Congress uses it's inability to get anything done for good instead of evil!

Just as the Founding Fathers intended.

When congress can't do anything - it is generally a very good thing.

Tornado of Zoo Animals

2012-01-16 09:56:27 AM

Have no fear people, in 2013 after the election, we will all hail our new SOPA overlords.

heinekenftw

2012-01-16 09:56:49 AM

This fight won't end until the RIAA/MPAA have their fingers forcibly removed from the congress pie.

Shadowknight

2012-01-16 09:58:57 AM

Shadowknight: I want to be happy about this, but I am far to cynical to neleive that they won't either pass PIPA instead, try to sneak this in later, or just pass something worse later. Probably while naming it something with the words "liberty," "security," or "freedom" in the name too.

I also can't believe that my thumb didn't go far enough over on my tablet, and i typed "nelieve" without spell check correcting it. What the hell? It catches things I don't want it to all the time and ignores the obvious ones?

/its a conspiracy to make us libs with our smug tablets look stupid, I tells ya

Shadowknight

2012-01-16 10:01:15 AM

heinekenftw: This fight won't end until the RIAA/MPAA have their fingers forcibly removed from the congress pie.

With fire? Because I'm imagining something akin to a tick or a leach, and you need to burn it off.

tenpoundsofcheese

2012-01-16 10:01:51 AM

Go GOP!

They probably did this after Obama said he would sign.

Clowns are a Ten

2012-01-16 10:02:05 AM

Can't believe Franken and Leahy are supporting the senate version of this.

We lost the only senator worth a damn when we lost Fiengold.

sprawl15

2012-01-16 10:02:36 AM

Shadowknight: I want to be happy about this, but I am far to cynical to neleive that they won't either pass PIPA instead, try to sneak this in later, or just pass something worse later. Probably while naming it something with the words "liberty," "security," or "freedom" in the name too.

All the more reason to have a real troll in Congress. I want one person to submit a bill that does something like institute a puppy kicking day and name it The Liberty Eagle Bill of Remember 9/11 Forever And Furthermore.

Shadowknight

2012-01-16 10:03:45 AM

Clowns are a Ten: Can't believe Franken and Leahy are supporting the senate version of this.

We lost the only senator worth a damn when we lost Fiengold.

Franken is? Damn, really? Well, I guess being old and not understanding tech overpowers even his liberal ideology.

Philip Francis Queeg

2012-01-16 10:05:48 AM

Shadowknight: Clowns are a Ten: Can't believe Franken and Leahy are supporting the senate version of this.

We lost the only senator worth a damn when we lost Fiengold.

Franken is? Damn, really? Well, I guess being old and not understanding tech overpowers even his liberal ideology.

I don't find it terribly shocking that a guy who worked in media for decades is siding with the big media companies.

erveek

2012-01-16 10:06:48 AM

heinekenftw: This fight won't end until the RIAA/MPAA have their fingers forcibly removed from the congress pie.

Congress Pie? I'm picturing Titus Andronicus.

Or maybe A. A. Milne.

/Why does a chicken?
//I don't know why.

Shadowknight

2012-01-16 10:07:12 AM

Philip Francis Queeg: Shadowknight: Clowns are a Ten: Can't believe Franken and Leahy are supporting the senate version of this.

We lost the only senator worth a damn when we lost Fiengold.

Franken is? Damn, really? Well, I guess being old and not understanding tech overpowers even his liberal ideology.

I don't find it terribly shocking that a guy who worked in media for decades is siding with the big media companies.

Point taken, my friend.

erveek

2012-01-16 10:07:46 AM

tenpoundsofcheese: Go GOP!

They probably did this after Obama said he would sign.

Hooray for spite.

Magorn

2012-01-16 10:08:47 AM

Victory?

Victory.

or in a slightly more cynical vein:

last night, I got up here and asked

you people to stand up and fight for

your heritage, and you did and it

was beautiful. Six million

telegrams were received at the White

House. The Arab takeover of C.C.

and A. has been stopped. The people

spoke, the people won. It was a

radiant eruption of democracy. But

I think that was it, fellers. That

sort of thing isn't likely to happen

again. Because, in the bottom of

all our terrified souls, we all know

that democracy is a dying giant, a

sick, sick dying, decaying political

concept, writhing in its final pain.

I don't mean the United States is

finished as a world power. The

United States is the most powerful,

the richest, the most advanced

country in the world, light-years

ahead of any other country. And I

don't mean the Communists are going

to take over the world. The

Communists are deader than we are.

What's finished is the idea that

this great country is dedicated to

the freedom and flourishing of every

individual in it.

tenpoundsofcheese

2012-01-16 10:09:48 AM

Clowns are a Ten: Can't believe Franken and Leahy are supporting the senate version of this.

We lost the only senator worth a damn when we lost Fiengold.

of course Franken is behind this. Can't upset his hollywood backers.

Riomp300

2012-01-16 10:09:58 AM

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BraveNewCheneyWorld

2012-01-16 10:10:04 AM

Clowns are a Ten: Can't believe Franken and Leahy are supporting the senate version of this.

What's up with Franken? I thought he'd be a positive character based on his first few months, but it only took like 6 months for him to turn into a complete whore.

InfrasonicTom

2012-01-16 10:15:41 AM

Tenebreux: I'm guessing the MPAA and the RIAA are twiddling their moustaches and going "Curses! Foiled again!", but as you'd expect, fully expect to try again next week.

i suspect the RIAA and MPAA was more just cover for this bill to go through in order to give politicians and law enforcement the ability to yoink any website they that dares speak badly about them.

imontheinternet

2012-01-16 10:18:22 AM

Clowns are a Ten: Can't believe Franken and Leahy are supporting the senate version of this.

We lost the only senator worth a damn when we lost Fiengold.

Feingold was the lone Nay vote on the Patriot Act.

LarryDan43

2012-01-16 10:18:31 AM

Rupert Murdoch is pissed, that must be a good thing.

bluelancer03

2012-01-16 10:20:30 AM

Once again Republican obstructionism is tying up our legislature and blocking progress.

CravenMorehead

2012-01-16 10:21:20 AM

This is due in no small part to the work done right here on Fark. Oh wait, that's right, Fark had no part in this.

Headso

2012-01-16 10:25:17 AM

Lucky for us big companies like Google have a stake in this fight.

SilentStrider

2012-01-16 10:27:07 AM

Thats good, for now. I'm sure this thing will rise from the grave, however. Repeatedly if necessary. Like a zombie. Or Hulk Hogans career.

Infernalist

2012-01-16 10:27:39 AM

The only thing this demonstrates is that the music and movie businesses are small and insignificant when compared to Facebook, Yahoo and Google.

They have the deeper pockets and they know what you searched for last night at 3am while everyone else was asleep.

sendtodave

2012-01-16 10:35:03 AM

Infernalist: They have the deeper pockets and they know what you searched for last night at 3am while everyone else was asleep.

I searched for pirated music.

LouDobbsAwaaaay

2012-01-16 10:36:01 AM

imontheinternet: Clowns are a Ten: Can't believe Franken and Leahy are supporting the senate version of this.

We lost the only senator worth a damn when we lost Fiengold.

Feingold was the lone Nay vote on the Patriot Act.

And we dropped him for a teabagger whose sole accomplishment was selling plastic from one of his father-in-law's companies to another of his father-in-law's companies. We live in an insane era. I used to wonder what it would be like to live through something as absurd ad the Red Scare.

imontheinternet

2012-01-16 10:36:29 AM

sendtodave: Infernalist: They have the deeper pockets and they know what you searched for last night at 3am while everyone else was asleep.

I searched for pirated music.

... as did congressional staffers.

erveek

2012-01-16 10:41:28 AM

sendtodave: Infernalist: They have the deeper pockets and they know what you searched for last night at 3am while everyone else was asleep.

I searched for pirated music.

That's a funny way to spell "Hummel figurines rule 34"

justafarkingchef

2012-01-16 10:42:19 AM

shinji3i: So they're just going to wait a few months until people forget about it and then sneak the legislation in through something?

Or do what they did in Wisconsin and vote in the absence of the Democratic party.

meat0918

2012-01-16 10:49:28 AM

Bucky Katt: Hmmm common sense might break out? We'll see.

The partisan cynic in me says this is the one way the Republicans can save face right now.

If Reid moves forward, they can claim the Democrats want to censor the Internet like China does.

Still, this is good news, for now.

Craptastic

2012-01-16 10:50:29 AM

sendtodave: Infernalist: They have the deeper pockets and they know what you searched for last night at 3am while everyone else was asleep.

I searched for pirated music.

I searched for pirate music.

/yo ho ho

apoptotic

2012-01-16 10:51:40 AM

Why do I get the feeling that Cantor just agreed to putting the brakes on SOPA because he realized that if PIPA makes it out of the Senate they still essentially get the law they wanted and get to minimize the backlash by blaming the entire fustercluck on Reid/Democrats?

sendtodave

2012-01-16 10:54:36 AM

erveek: sendtodave: Infernalist: They have the deeper pockets and they know what you searched for last night at 3am while everyone else was asleep.

I searched for pirated music.

That's a funny way to spell "Hummel figurines rule 34"

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