Conference of Mayors, the National Association of Attorneys General, the Chamber of Commerce, the Better Business Bureau, the AFL–CIO and 22 trade unions, the National Consumers League, and over a hundred associations representing industries throughout the economy which claim that they are being harmed by online piracy. It also received support from the Fraternal Order of Police, the National Governors Association, The National Conference of Legislatures, the U.S.

The bill received strong, bipartisan support in the House of Representatives and the Senate. search engines, proponents asserted that stronger enforcement tools were needed. Claiming flaws in existing laws that do not cover foreign-owned and operated websites, and citing examples of active promotion of rogue websites by U.S. Proponents of the legislation said it would protect the intellectual-property market and corresponding industry, jobs and revenue, and was necessary to bolster enforcement of copyright laws, especially against foreign-owned and operated websites. The proposed law would have expanded existing criminal laws to include unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content, imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Provisions included the requesting of court orders to bar advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting business with infringing websites, and web search engines from linking to the websites, and court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to the websites. law enforcement to combat online copyright infringement and online trafficking in counterfeit goods. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA) was a controversial United States bill introduced on October 26, 2011, by U.S.

Committee consideration by House Judiciary Committee.

Introduced in the House as H.R. 3261 by Lamar Smith ( R- TX) on October 26, 2011.

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