House Passes CISPA in 288-127 Vote

I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I may need more info. The link had a lot of words but not real helpful info.

How different or a like is this to sopa?
 
CISPA is an amendment to the National Security Act of 1947, which does not currently contain provisions pertaining to cybercrime. It adds provisions to the Act describing cyber threat intelligence as "information in the possession of an element of the intelligence community directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to, a system or network of a government or private entity, including information pertaining to the protection of a system or network from either 'efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network'; or 'theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information.' In addition, CISPA requires the Director of National Intelligence to establish procedures to allow intelligence community elements to share cyber threat intelligence with private-sector entities and encourage the sharing of such intelligence.

The latest version narrows some definitions and strengthens privacy

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3523:
 
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