Internet advocates across the country celebrated today as Senator Harry Reid announced that he was indefinitely delaying a vote on the PROTECT IP Act - and then a few hours later, Rep. Lamar Smith shelved any further action on the Stop Online Piracy Act. Online policy advocacy groups across the country immediately heralded the news; my favorite banner headline was from arstechnica.com, which featured crumbling tombstones engraved respectively with SOPA and PIPA. Read more about A Different Kind of SOPA and PIPA
