The U.S. congress is briefly on holiday (yes, I know, it is ridiculous), but as CNN has reported, this is a brief respite before
The idea behind the Stop Online Piracy Act is "intended to help put a stop to foreign websites that illegally post, and sometimes sell, intellectual property from the United States. Federal law-enforcement agencies would be empowered to shut down those sites and cut off advertising and online payments to them"
a potentially litigious storm kicks off. The decline of the record and motion picture industries due to piracy have finally become a concern for those in congress; at least serious enough to approach new legislation giving the government unprecedented power to shut websites down. It goes without saying that most of the search engines are not too pleased.
