U.S. Senate Pull Support the Sopa

In the midst of a wave of protests on the Internet, approximately 16 members of the Senate United States (U.S.), including those who previously supported IP Protect Act (PIPA), has been withdrawing their support.

PIPA targeting sites that hijack content sole purpose is, in short, most of the BitTorrent sites. Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) have different effects.

As proclaimed InternationalBusinessTimes, Thursday (1/19/2012), the bill is protested is targeting sites that perform or assist any copyright violations, and trigger the possibility of legal sites like Reddit or closed if there is a Wikipedia user who menggunggah label rights content copyright.

Until Wednesday, PIPA has 16 sponsors of the Republican and 23 Democratic sponsors. The amount is almost 40 percent of the total 100 members of the senate. Currently, the percentage of supporters of the bill in the Senate amounted to less than one quarter.

Republican Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, formerly the sponsor the bill. According to Ars Technica, he said there are legitimate concerns about the impact of the draft law on Internet access. There was also potential for the expansion of federal government power is not unreasonable, the impact on the internet.