do you think SOPA will be permanent

it seems like google, facebook, twitter, and other tons of big online companies are against sopa

SOPA was killed - we still have PIPA, which I've heard nothing about being put down. OPEN is leading in the direction of SOPA but not quite as scary, it could easily get to be, though. Our reps have a way of re-writing stuff when we aren't looking.

IF any of these pass, they will be hard to get rid of, if we even can. We no longer has a gov that operates under the dictates of the people or the constitution.

We will have a few choices if a bill like this goes into law. We can recall reps or impeach the president and what they have done can be rescinded. That's not likely to happen. People will impeach over illicit sex, but not for their rights. Go figure. If we fire enough, the rest might actually take the law down out of fear for their jobs, too. Pipe dream - most Americans haven't been mistreated enough to care enough to act this strongly yet, and don't understand the need to do it right now instead of down the road "sometime". There is a misconception about threatening not to re-elect being enough.

We can petition the DOJ because the law is unconstitutional. They can rescind the law if found it violates rights. Since the NDAA is still in effect, I don't think our DOJ can be trusted either. Crony capitalism has a way allowing people to be installed into positions to do the work of those at the top (in this case corporations) instead of following the laws of the land, too. The DOJ interprets the laws. I've seen some outrageous interpretations coming out of that court. If people in English classes were to interpret our language the way they do, we'd never achieve communication at all.

We can hope that the people that are wrongfully victimized by the law have enough money to fight it in court and win against the old money. When the court finds a law violated their rights, precedence gets set that dilutes it's strength. Sometimes parts get tossed or the whole law is renounced.

The best way to ditch a law that is as insane as SOPA is to fire every representative who supported it as a bill. In 9 states people have the right to recall their reps via petitions. People in the other states have to petition and lobby to also attain that law. They should do so now. As far as the last word I've heard, only Montana is petitioning to recall their reps that supported NDAA. It is so unbelievable that only one state is acting against reps that signed that monster that I have no hope that something like SOPA will not make its way through and actually stick.

Hollywood has just withdrawn their financial election support to those reps who "betrayed" THEM, btw. They are angry about not getting what they paid for.

You gotta love acronyms...and the irony of that one -

I have a new bill for the House to propose: The "Stop Hiding Illegal Transactions Electronically" bill.
In this proposal - "Everyone who engages in an illegal act on the internet will have to beg forgiveness from God, promise never to do it again (no 'crossie' fingers) call 'olly,olly oxen free", and apply for amnesty."

For now we've had a victory of sorts, however, the big boys aren't going to give up and they'll try yet again with a new angle, nonetheless. We must remain vigilant though.

as expected, US congress has decided sopa and pipa off the table, and this is mainly because of online protests led by google and wikipedia......
but megaupload is banned..........so sad.

Chris Dodd may go under investigation...

MPAA Chief Chris Dodd On Defense Over Piracy Loss, Bribery Accusations | TPM Idea Lab

I think it will depend on how they will prevent it..