Former Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), now the CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, the movie industy’s lobbying group, believes that the hated national anti-online piracy legislation known as SOPA (The Stop Online Piracy Act) is being revived.
Critics of the bills pointed out that the bills’ language was overly broad and could result in the forced takedown of pages on Reddit, Wikipedia, YouTube and other popular social websites where users share links and files, some of which go to copyrighted material. Supporters, including Dodd and the MPAA, contend that the bills are necessary to fight online piracy and protect American jobs, though their claims have been repeatedly challenged and/or debunked.
h/t: Carl Franzen at TPM