The SOPA law, to the freezer ... for now

The malevolent SOPA bill, who intended block any website that contains links to contents protected by Copyright as well as to implement a series of harsh restrictions, it has been «frozen»By the United States Congress until a consensus is found and criteria are unified regarding it. In this way, the bill will no longer be put to a vote on January 24 as planned.

The decision came from the White House itself, which found the law counterproductive. "While we believe that online piracy is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases security threats and undermines the global dynamics and innovation of the Internet," he published in a statement, signed by three advisers to President Barack Obama.

The SOPA bill is designed to prosecute websites that offer illegal copies of music, movies and television programs with "total impunity." It would even empower the Department of Justice and copyright owners to require search engines to remove links to sites "dedicated" to copyright infringement.

Since the SOPA project came to light in October 2011, it has sparked more than one backlash from Internet freedom advocates and Internet companies, such as Google, Yahoo, and Facebook, who claim that this rule could slow down innovation and suppressing freedom of expression.

The political reading that most of the media do is that the pressure exerted by the giants Google, Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook, in opposition to SOPA (they threaten to paralyze their operations on January 18, as a protest) pushed the decision of the House White And we must not forget the importance that SOPA had among thousands of citizens who saw in this draft regulation a clear subjugation of civil rights (websites could be blocked without prior trial).