from www.siliconvalley.com – The wave of outrage this week from Silicon Valley may have paid off — The Wrap reports that the Stop Online Piracy Act is unlikely to win House approval under its current form.

The bill, which would give authorities the power to block websites, ad networks and online payment services used by Internet pirates, has been decried by tech companies, lawmakers and civil liberties groups who say it would essentially censor the Internet.

Thursday, two of California’s most influential lawmakers came out against SOPA, with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeting “Need to find a better solution than #SOPA #DontBreakTheInternet,” and Republican Rep. – and former tech CEO — Darrell Issa [pictured] telling The Hill newspaper that the bill has no chance of passage.

Issa said Congress is “realizing there are so many unintended consequences that they can’t just use Google as a piñata and bash on it here.”

According to The Wrap, Issa went on: “I don’t believe this bill has any chance on the House floor. . . . I think it’s way too extreme, it infringes on too many areas that our leadership will know is simply too dangerous to do in its current form.”

Opposition to the bill isn’t limited to the U.S. — the European Union has adopted a resolution opposing SOPA, TorrentFreak reports, stressing the importance of “the need to protect the integrity of the global Internet and freedom of communication.” And on a different note, TheNextWeb has outed a number of tech companies — including Apple and Microsoft — who it says tacitly support the bill through their membership in a business alliance that backs SOPA. Members i the group also includes Adobe, Intel, Intuit and McAfee.