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dead, they're not coming back."->  Submitted by concealment
writes "Dodd sounded chastened, with a tone that was a far cry
from the rhetoric the MPAA was putting out in January. "When
SOPA-PIPA blew up, it was a transformative event," said Dodd.
"There were eight million e-mails [to elected representatives]
in two days." That caused senators to run away from the
legislation. "People were dropping their names as co-sponsors
within minutes, not hours," he said.  "These bills are dead,
they're not coming back," said Dodd. "And they shouldn't." He
said the MPAA isn't focused on getting similar legislation
passed in the future, at the moment. "I think we're better
served by sitting down [with the tech sector and SOPA opponents]
and seeing what we agree on."  Still, Dodd did say that some of
the reaction to SOPA and PIPA was "over the top"—specifically,
the allegations of censorship, implied by the black bar over
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