'Rogue websites' bill in US House -Piracy
 

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Title: 'Rogue websites' bill introduced in US House

House Judiciary Committee chairman Lamar Smith,
said the bill "helps stop the flow of revenue to rogue websites and ensures that the profits from American innovations go to American innovators".
"The online thieves who run these foreign websites are out of the reach of US law enforcement agencies and profit from selling pirated goods without any legal consequences,"


The Washington-based Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said the House bill "raises serious red flags.
"It includes the most controversial parts of the Senate's Protect IP Act, but radically expands the scope," the CDT said in a statement. "Any website that features user-generated content or that enables cloud-based data storage could end up in its crosshairs.

"Internet Service Providers would face new and open-ended obligations to monitor and police user behavior," the CDT said. "Payment processors and ad networks would be required to cut off business with any website that rightsholders allege hasn't done enough to police infringement.

couldn't post the url. Maybe someone else will. thanks

Fuck pirates.

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actually next on the list is obnoxious font sizes. sorry bro.

and misleading forum nicks

You actually do use that big font every time you post?

My god, what a fucking tool.....

This is great news. And is it really so that most pirate sites are based outside the US?

Not like they are doing that much against the pirate sites IN the US.

Yet another pipe dream bill.

As long as Google owns YouTube, there is not a chance in hell of bills like this passing.

:2 cents:

Looks like you're already ahead of the game on that one, chief.

I fuck your moms ass. Do I get caught in this net?

I would be more concerned with this shit in the near term
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10...kedown_powers/

To the extent that this is a US-based thing, there is that whole innocent-until-proven-guilty basic tenet of society. So I don't see how they would determine what counted as abuse and how to use their newfound powers.

don't a lot of companies set up offshore?

VeriSign actually withdrew its request for that takedown authority a few days after their request was publicized.

Thats good to see

Cool. Thanks for posting the info.