NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] L.A. Times on E-PARASITES legislation (they are not enthusiastic)
L.A. Times on E-PARASITES legislation (they are not enthusiastic)
"A bipartisan attempt to regulate the Internet?"
http://j.mp/uOwGwu (L.A. Times)
"There's broad support for cutting off the financial lifeline for
piracy hotbeds. But the bills' requirement that ISPs try to block
their customers from reaching those sites has drawn opposition from an
array of technology companies and networking engineers, who warn that
it would encourage consumers to use alternate domain-name servers.
That, in turn, would fragment the domain-name system and stymie
efforts to make the Net less hospitable to malware.
...
Tech companies are also concerned about the power the Senate bill
would grant to copyright holders to seek injunctions against sites
they believe are dedicated to infringing activities -- a description
that Viacom's attorneys could well have applied to YouTube before it
started automatically checking uploads against a database of
copyrighted works. But the private right of action in the House bill
makes the Senate provision seem tame by comparison.
...
Instead, this one will test the relative clout of copyright and
trademark holders against Google, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and the
hands-off-the-Internet crowd. There's consensus to be had on combating
the likes of The Pirate Bay, but it's not to be found in HR 3261."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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