Did Occupiers just kill Internet blacklist bill?

Is this yet another victory for the Occupy movement?

Congress has been working on a bipartisan bill known in the Senate as the PROTECT IP Act and in the House as SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). Regardless of what the intent of the bill is, the result could be devastating (though I suspect Republican sponsors knew that but just won't admit it).

The stated goal of the bill is to crack down on online piracy. But if enacted, it would do much more. Not only would it gut the DMCA's provision that requires copyright holders to go through the process of submitting notices of infringement to allegedly offending websites, but it would also allow the Attorney General to prohibit search engines from linking to certain sites. It would even force credit card companies to stop doing business with blackballed sites - regardless of whether the sites were proven to be violating anybody's copyright.

Another result of the bill would be that open source software projects could be shut down. Social networking sites could even be closed. The bill is so broad that YouTube and Flickr would likely be closed too. And it would prevent Americans from ordering cheaper medications from Canada.

But after being exposed by Occupy websites and events, this Internet blacklisting bill became the subject of negative correspondence to Congress. Now the bill is likely dead. Nancy Pelosi spoke out against it, and even Darrell Issa says it now has "no chance of passage."

If Occupiers killed this bill - which they likely did - this isn't the first Occupy win. Last month, when the movement was only a month old, Occupiers got big banks to drop their plans to institute a fee for using a debit card. The banks' greedy proposal was wrapped in classism, as it wouldn't have applied to regular credit cards.

At the polling booth this month, the Occupy movement clearly fueled a trend back towards representative populism. Plus, Occupiers succeeded at delaying and possibly preventing approval of TransCanada's economically and ecologically disastrous Keystone XL pipeline in the Midwest. (TransCanada tried using eminent domain to build it, even though it's a corporation, not a government body. Also, the pipeline would have benefited the zillionaire Koch brothers, who have helped bankroll the Tea Party and other right-wing causes.)

With Occupiers turning everything they touch into a thrilling victory, what delightful surprises are next?