LOS ANGELES — Look for changes in the proposed antipiracy legislation that has giants in the entertainment and technology industries squared off against each other, but nothing extensive enough to please all of the legislation’s opponents. That was the message from Michael O’Leary, the senior executive vice president for global policy and external affairs of the Motion Picture Association of America, during a telephone news briefing on Wednesday.
“We will come forward with language that will address some of the legitimate concerns” of technology companies that have opposed the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House, and a similar Protect I.P. Act in the Senate, Mr. O’Leary said.
He said those who were pushing the far-reaching antipiracy legislation have been huddling with Congressional staff members from both parties and both the House and Senate in the last few days, in an effort to answer some objections raised by Google, Yahoo and others who say the bills reach too far.
Mr. O’Leary appeared on the call with Kathy Garmezy, the associate executive director for government and international affairs of the Directors Guild of America, and Scott Harbinson, a government affairs officer with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
The proposed bills are intended to combat foreign-based Web sites that traffic in stolen copyrighted content by forcing sites that assist them through searches, payments or other means to sever those connections. Tech companies say that such steps would open the door to huge business and government intervention into the free flow of the Internet.
Mr. O’Leary and his companions on the call declined to say specifically what changes in the bills they might support — and Mr. O’Leary strongly cautioned that he believed that some technology companies and public advocates were bound to remain unhappy with modified version of the bills.
“It’s all rhetoric and there are no proposals,” he said of the position staked out by the opponents to the bills. “From where I sit, it’s hard to see that as anything but a pretext for running out the clock and preserving the status quo.”
Mr. O’Leary and his allies expressed confidence that the legislation would pass in some form. But they declined to say when or how it might move through some considerable opposition in Congress.
“There are lots of hurdles to be overcome,” said Mr. O’Leary, who acknowledged that the holidays and the coming turmoil of an election year would not make things any easier.