.. Criss Dodd stepped down from the Senate, to strategically become chairmen of the Motion Picture Association, in what would become a leading advocate for the Online "Piracy" Act.
...Dodd has come under intense criticism for his role at the MPAA in the SOPA debate. He is not allowed to directly lobby in Congress, so he has acted as a coordinator of the association's activities in Washington, which were focused for the last several months in large part on passing the SOPA bill