Two controversial anti-piracy bill invited the two sides involved in the pro and KOTRA large lobby that cost millions of dollars in the United States.
Total 145 companies and organizations lobbied parliament for and against Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), while 157 groups lobbying against the bill mate, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), in the Senate.
Comcast is supporting the bill, so far the biggest lobbyists, spend 5 million dollars for this problem, the report said quoting CNN Center for Responsive Politics.
In the opposing camp, Google reported as lobbyists with the greatest spend about 4 million U.S. dollars. The total cost of the lobby was a rough estimate, since companies often enter the issue and other issues in the report to lobby Congress.
Although the opponents of the bill agree that protecting the content is a worthy goal, but they argue that it effectively allows the existence of censorship and a lot of potential unintended consequences.
Proponents of the bill comes primarily from the trade and media industries, such as Visa, Mastercard, who spent several hundred thousand dollars, also National Amusements, AT & T, News Corp. and Time Warner, parent company of CNNMoney.
Recording and film industries are also spending a lot of lobbying to support the bill.
While the cons chaired by Internet companies like eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, web domain registration agency, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
However, some unexpected names also lobbied Congress and PIPA related SOPA include Tiffany, Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Pepsi.
It is an extraordinary lobbying efforts on both sides, although it has not been able to solve a list of 10 biggest lobbying bill 2011.
After massive protests from technology companies, both online and physical, and PIPA SOPA official voting was postponed on 20 January.
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