The pirate’s life is not for Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT).

Leahy is the architect and primary sponsor of the PROTECT IP ACT (PIPA), a piece of anti-online piracy legislation that was the target of an unprecedented mass protest by Web companies and users on January 18.

As a result of the protest, a number of lawmakers came out against PIPA and its sister in the House, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Reacting to the sudden loss of support, leaders in Congress on Friday indefinitely postponed further action on the bills, effectively leaving them dead in the water.

But Leahy refuses to give up. On Monday, he read a lengthy prepared statement to House floor calling for the Senate to resume its work on the bill and decrying the negative “one-sided” treatment PIPA received on the Web, at the same time praising the Internet’s “democratizing impact around the world.”

Leahy’s statement is long, clocking in at 2,100 plus words, bringing up favorable excerpts from editorials in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal advocating that lawmakers pass anti-piracy legislation.

You can read Leahy’s statement in its entirety over at his website, but here are some of the more intriguing passages.

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