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With more and more companies and individuals coming away against the Blockage Online Piracy Routine (SOPA), the generator of the Senate version on Thursday foreboded to canvass how his banknote might affect the Domain Advert Organisation (DNS).

SOPA, currently being thought in the House, and the PROTECT IP Routine (PIPA), which is making its style through the Senate, both go afterward so-called “rogue” overseas Web sites that traffic in counterfeit goods—from fake handbags to prescription drugs. The bills would countenance the Justice Department to induce a courtroom society to shut down these sites and strike them from hunting engines. Detractors, however, argue that the bills are too panoptic and far-reaching, and could get unintended consequences on legitimate, U.S.-based Web sites.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and source of PIPA, said on Thursday that he is prepping an amendment to the banknote that would ask a study into the effects of the bank-bill before it is implemented.

“Through this process, [I] have proceeded to learn concerns almost the Domain Advert supply from engineers, human rights groups, and others,” Leahy said. “I rest confident that the ISPs—including the cable industry, which is the largest association of ISPs—would not abide the legislation if its enactment created the problems that opponents of this provision suggest. Nonetheless, this is in fact a highly technical issue, and I am organized to recommend we reach it more canvas before implementing it.”

While one might argue that it would be best to figure out the ramifications of a greenback ahead vote it into law, Sen. Leahy articulated the major issues that SOPA and PIPA would address must be addressed as soon equally possible. The study, Leahy argued, will countenance lawmakers to “focus on the other important provisions in this bill, which are essential to protecting American intellectual property online, and the American jobs that are tied to intellectual property.”