In case you only read Declan McCullough’s column in CNET, a big part of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeiting Act is to stop thieves who are propped up by US adserving companies–like Google, a familiar name around the McCullough household. (Which may explain why the usual suspects are pitching a fit.)

Another surprise to the columnist’s readers may be that the people who are hurt the most by Google’s Adsense are working people and independent film makers such as Ellen Seidler, whose piece in Roll Call today (“Congress Needs to Pass Leahy-Hatch Anti-Piracy Bill”) should be enough to at least put a dent into stock option induced selective reading.