This morning legislative leaders in both House and Senate announced they would be postponing votes on their respective anti-piracy acts. There’s little doubt that some kind of online copyright infringement rules will emerge again, but not in the form they were presented in the Stop Online Piracy Act and its isotope Protect Intellectual Property Act.
It’s clear that both the online blackouts, and local street-level protests in NYC had their effect.
If you’ve missed the past debate and want to catch up quickly–these issues are not dead–Ars Technica (of course) has the best single post I’ve read on the subject.