Several Web giants are voicing their opposition to the new Internet piracy bill being debated in Congress, called the Stop Online Piracy Act , known as SOPA. As Cecilia Kang reported:
Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names are threatening to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over a bill that would make Web companies liable for pirated content that appears on their sites.
Last month, Yahoo quietly quit the powerful business trade group, which supports the legislation. Google and the Consumer Electronics Association, which represents 2,200 firms, are warning they may do the same.
“Given the fact that their mission is to grow the American economy, sponsoring legislation that would harm one sector that is perhaps the brightest spot of the economy is short-sighted,” said CEA senior vice president Michael Petricone. “It makes one wonder what their membership will be like in the future.”
When asked whether CEA would drop its membership, he replied: “We are comfortably reassessing groups we are members of.”
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