# USA Today: Support for anti-piracy bills wanes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 19, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967 "2012-01-19T02:18:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967/1 "2012-01-19T02:18:25Z")
[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-18/SOPA-PIPA-Internet-protest-power/52653356/1](http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-18/SOPA-PIPA-Internet-protest-power/52653356/1) > [@](#): > > Bowing to the power of the Internet, several key lawmakers withdrew support for anti-piracy legislation after a 24-hour blackout by thousands of websites Wednesday, likely quashing any chance the bills would pass in their current form. > [@](#): > > Chris Dodd, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, called the protest a “gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently.” Hollywood’s lobbyist is the former Democratic senator from Connecticut. Hey Chris Dodd. Suck it! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967/2 "2012-01-19T02:41:08Z")
I have to agree. Chris Dodd should suck it. The MPAA is so full of shit on this it is crazy. The laws they are pushing for are worse then the damn Disney forever copyright laws. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967/3 "2012-01-19T02:51:23Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I have to agree. > Chris Dodd should suck it. > The MPAA is so full of shit on this it is crazy. The laws they are pushing for are worse then the damn Disney forever copyright laws. The laws they are pushing could turn the internet into just another broadcast medium for major corporations. No one else could afford the lawyers that would be required to run a website. And I’m not 100% convinced that that isn’t their goal. ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967/4 "2012-01-19T03:08:39Z")
Good,that means I can still go on my favorite blog:) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967/5 "2012-01-19T04:06:56Z")
When I heard Chris Dodd on the radio I could not help saying out loud “what a maroon!” \* when he said that the sites protesting were like petulant children, and we needed to dialog instead, not do stunts. > **[MSNBC Brings On MPAA Lobbyist Chris Dodd For 'Fair And Balanced' Discussion...](https://crooksandliars.com/heather/msnbc-brings-mpaa-lobbyist-chris-dodd-fair)** > > After virtually ignoring the upcoming SOPA legislation and the upcoming online blackout to protest the pending legislation, now that the blackout is upon us, the corporate news channels that also support the bill finally decided to let their viewers And he is a “maroon” because any casual reader of how they were making the [del]sausage[/del] law knows already that it was the petulant puppets of Chris Dodd that voted down the vast majority of amendments that dealt with the concerns that the ones protesting finally took to the public arena to show. And then he claimed that the main issue was taken care of (the IP blocking) so there was no need to protest. Excuse me, but it was your puppet the one that decided to take down that language of the bill because of the pressure that was already building, not because of some sensible congress critter’s amendment. And as it would be clear that a site like Crooks & Liars that posts clips of those crooks and liars would be a primary target of this law, I have to say that Dodd and others should go to the corner and sulk as they are really still underdeveloped. - Ok. it was something worse, so sue me Dodd! Oh that’s right you can not 🙂 … yet. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967/6 "2012-01-19T04:46:11Z")
Knew his dad was an asshole. Been suspecting he was, too, for some years. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967/7 "2012-01-19T15:00:20Z")
Damn it, I thought I wouldn’t have to hear anything Dodd said after he stopped running for re-election. The only thing that surprises me is learning he represents film studios rather than insurance companies. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967/8 "2012-01-19T18:37:07Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-18/SOPA-PIPA-Internet-protest-power/52653356/1](http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-18/SOPA-PIPA-Internet-protest-power/52653356/1) > > Hey Chris Dodd. Suck it! Hey Dodd, next time find yourself some _honest_ politicians (i.e. ones who will _stay_ bought and not desert you under pressure so fast that they make Captain Schettino look like Horatius at the bridge). (And now that comparison has me visualizing Dodd yelling at his fleeing “allies” like that Coast Guard captain yelling at Schettino, except that I imagine the Coast Guard captain sounding like R. Lee Ermey while Dodd would sound more like that ROTC dude yelling “All Is Well!” in _Animal House_.) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-today-support-for-anti-piracy-bills-wanes/609967/9 "2012-01-19T18:41:29Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > The laws they are pushing could turn the internet into just another broadcast medium for major corporations. No one else could afford the lawyers that would be required to run a website. > > And I’m not 100% convinced that that isn’t their goal. I **am** 100% convinced that that **is** their goal.