The protect IP bill passed. All is lost. The Internet henceforth will be known as the Govennet. Darknets, VPNs tor sites, and the like will collectively be known as the Internet.

God. Damn. It.

>Opposition to the bill is snowballing: Google, Yahoo, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association, Consumer Electronics >Association, and Net Coalition are making their opposition vocal. Demand Progress and a dozen other civil liberties and human rights groups circulated a letter in opposition this week.

>more than 3,000 people members called Washington to urge their lawmakers to vote no.

The only real effect this will have is to add to the huge pile of evidence that the U.S. government still doesn't know how the internet works. WikiLeaks and The Pirate bay aren't going anywhere anytime soon.