Today, Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This decision was due to several factors, but the main ones being the out-lash against the unpopular bill on online forums, and the fact that the White House threatened to veto the bill if pushed through.

However, it isn’t time to celebrate quite yet. PIPA (aka ‘Protect IP Act’ – the Senate’s version of the SOPA Bill) is still up for consideration.

SOPA had received a huge outcry of resistant online from social media website blackouts to service protests like GoDaddy (GoDaddy lost well over 100,000 domains in the span of about 10 days due to their involvement with SOPA and PIPA). Thus proving the power that the online community can have on the democratic process, enabling individuals to speak their mind.

PIPA is less well known than SOPA, but the provisions are basicly the same. It still includes the same DNS blocking and censoring system that the original SOPA did, just without the SOPA name. There are around 40 co-sponsors of the bill in the Senate so far, with no word on how many senators support the bill in addition to that. There will most likely need to be 60 votes in the Senate in order to invoke cloture and end an almost guaranteed filibuster.

What do you think of this vote, and what do you think will happen with PIPA?