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"You may have noticed some of your favorite sites went black yesterday (like Wikipedia and Reddit) or just seemed different than usual (Google&amp;#039;s label was covered with a black swatch). The goal was to raise awareness about a pair of upcoming bills centered on anti-piracy - The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).  While it&amp;#039;s easy to control piracy in the United States with current domestic legislation (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), it&amp;#039;s not as easy to control it on foreign sites. These legislative acts were meant to combat piracy of movies, music, books, and online literature in the US by restricting access to sites, search engines, and advertisers that facilitate copyright infringement. For instance, this means Google couldn&amp;#039;t list these sites in its search results and PayPal wouldn&amp;#039;t be allowed to transfer funds to them. Sites like Google, PayPal, YouTube, and other engines are concerned about the difficulty of adequately monitoring their content.  Opposition has come from tech companies which would have to police their sites much more heavily. After yesterday&amp;#039;s very public brouhaha, senators that originally backed the legislation started to fall off -taking to very public forums to do so. Senator Marco Rubio renounced support of the bill, which he had co-sponsored, on Facebook, Senator John Cornyn took to Facebook as well, urging a halt, and Senator DeMint voiced his opposition on Twitter. Soon afterwards 10 more senators and roughly 20 House members renounced the bills.  So what will happen now? Since piracy is definitely something we need to combat, further analysis and changes to the bills will have to be made before they&amp;#039;re ready to be voted on and enacted. While the end goal of the legislation is a promising and necessary one, it&amp;#039;s important for the bills to be reworked from a logistical standpoint. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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