Editing Pirate Act (section)

==Legislative history==

The Pirate Act was grouped into an [[omnibus bill]] - The Intellectual Property Protection Act (2004) - with seven other related pieces of legislation, including the Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2004 (ART Act). It passed the Senate by a unanimous vote on June 25, 2004, and was referred to the [[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary]] on August 4, 2004, where it eventually failed to pass. Various reincarnations of the Pirate Act were proposed and passed through the Senate in both 2005 and 2006, but both times it again failed to pass through the House.

Another variation - The [[Intellectual Property Enforcement Act of 2007]] - was proposed in the Senate on November 6, 2007, but no progress was made.<ref>{{cite web|last=Anderson|first=Nate|title=PIRATE Act dons eye patch, swashbuckles back into Senate|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/11/pirate-act-dons-eye-patch-swashbuckles-back-into-senate.ars|publisher=Ars Technica|date=November 8, 2007}}</ref>