SOPA Opponents Fear New Anti-Piracy Legislation is Coming

Carl Franzen April 6, 2012, 3:26 PM 1003

Updated 4:20 pm ET, Friday, April 6

Advocacy groups that led the fight against the failed anti-online piracy bills the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (IP) have begun to mobilize their forces anew, anticipating that lawmakers, backed by Hollywood lobbyists, will attempt to resurrect the bills or launch comparable new legislation in an effort to crack down on piracy.

The sudden regrouping comes three months after a successful, massive one-day protest by millions of Web users and hundreds of thousands of sites, including Google, Wikipedia and Reddit, spooked legislators away from SOPA and PIPA and left the bills indefinitely stalled in Congress. No new similarly broad anti-piracy legislation has been introduced since.