Zombie SOPA? Congressman Introduces Pieces Of Defeated Bill, With Support From Former Opponent Issa

It's alive! Hollywood darling Representative Lamar Smith is attempting to reanimate portions of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA)?bit by bit.?The Intellectual Property Attach? Act, slipped in for consideration over the weekend, revives one of the sneaker portions of SOPA to create a global intellectual property task force, charged with aggressively promoting anti-piracy law around the world. But the problem, as TechDirt's Mike Masnick points out, is that the proposed task force seems biased towards the very overreaching anti-piracy principals that were the basis of SOPA. In other words, Congress and local governments have a habit of sidestepping important policy debates with backdoor laws that force through a particular point of view before there's general public consensus on the issue. (Representative Darrell Issa, an early opponent of SOPA, is supporting an amended version of the bill, and we've included his full, exclusive statement at the end of this post)

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