17.11.2011 - 09:14 [ Washington Post ]

SOPA, controversial online piracy bill, gains support as lobbying intensifies

Google, Facebook, Yahoo and other Web giants launched a media blitz on Wednesday with full-page newspaper ads urging lawmakers to vote against the proposal. Vague language in the bill would force them to shut down the domain names of infringing sites and would lead to lawsuits, they said. Telecommunications firms, including Verizon Communications, complained that the bill would force them to stop Internet traffic that contained illegal content.