April 12, 2012 12:16 PM EDT. Bloomberg
SOPA -- the controversial online piracy bill tech giants said would "break the Internet" - is dead, Hollywood's chief lobbyist Chris Dodd said.
Dodd, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said the industry-supported Stop Online Piracy Act is "history", in an interview with Bloomberg Television that will air this weekend.
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"The technology community ... believe we must do something about intellectual property," film industry lobbyist Chris Dodd said after calling the controversial anti-piracy legislation known as SOPA "dead."
"That's over with. It's gone, in my view. It's dead. It's behind us," said Dodd, a former five-term Democratic U.S. senator from Connecticut.
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The stark comments, from the man who pushed for tougher anti-piracy laws, come after a concerted effort from the technology community to block SOPA from passing the U.S. Congress last year. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Wikipedia and Reddit all went dark in protest; web domain registration provider GoDaddy.com was subject to a boycott because of its support for the bill.
Opposition to the bipartisan SOPA began to grow late in the U.S. House of Representatives, resulting in the measure getting shelved in January.
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