The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been pulled (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/sopa-withdrawn-lamar-smith_n_1219250.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003) and its Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act (PIPA) is on hold (http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/20/senator-harry-reid-caves-pipa-postponed/). The Internet won (http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/sopa-scorecard-internet-lobbyists/) this round, it seems. But don't celebrate just yet. The forces behind these acts are simply regrouping. Should SOPA and PIPA be killed, or can they be fixed? We invited Viacom's General Counsel and EVP Michael Fricklas and David Sohn, General Counsel and Director of the Center for Democracy And Technology (http://cdt.org/), to debate the issue in the video above.
This is Part I of the debate. We will put up the rest later.
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