Congress postpones crucial vote

Yielding to strong opposition from the high tech sector, leaders of the Senate and the House of representatives yesterday said that they will postpone the vote on a Bill to combat piracy on the internet.

The leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Harry Reid, said he had postponed a preliminary vote scheduled for Tuesday "in the light of recent developments".

These include a campaign of petitions by Google which attracted more than 7 million participants and a suspension of service for 24 hours by the Cyber encyclopedia Wikipedia.

The head of the judicial Committee of the lower House, Lamar Smith, followed the pattern, saying that the consideration of a proposal for a similar Bill in the House would be postponed "until that there is greater on a settlement agreement".

- The law on protection of intellectual property in the Senate (PIPA) and projects Act to curb the u000aPiracy in the Chamber of representatives (soup) - have strong support in the industry of entertainment and other sectors which lost millions of dollars each year for theft of intellectual property and the sale of counterfeit products on the internet. But it has a strong opposition of companies who say that the law would involve an excessive regulation.

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