During the furor over sweeping anti-piracy bills in the US and Europe, a digital rights saga in Italy has gone largely unnoticed. Free speech groups have led a revolt against the so-called ‘Italian SOPA.’
Italian free speech groups have claimed victory after leading a movement against a piece of legislation the national press dubbed the “Italian SOPA” – a reference to the Stop Online Piracy Act which came to a contentious halt in the U.S. Senate late last month.
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“It’s definitely a victory,” Guglielmo Troiano, a lawyer for Agora Digitale, told Deutsche Welle. “Thanks to the press conference we organized, there was the cohesion necessary among all political parties, with the exception of the Northern League, to vote against the amendment.”