American rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) Today proposed a law that could obtain copyright owners that internet providers require that they have to block access to foreign piracy websites. The bill would also force DNS providers to block sites.
Lofgren said in a press release that she works “[ed] For more than a year with the technology, film and television industry “on” a proposal that has a remedy for copyright infrastructors that is abroad that the free internet does not disrupt, except the infranters. “Lofgren said she is planning to work with Republican leaders on feed.
The press release from Lofgren includes a quote from Charles Rivkin, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). As we have written before, the MPA has encouraged the congress to take a site -blocking law.
“More than 55 countries around the world, including democracies such as Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, have introduced tools that are comparable to those presented by Rep. Lofgren, and they have successfully reduced the damage of piracy and at the same time the Protect access to the consumer to legal content, “Rivkin was quoted as in Lofgren's press release today.
Lofgren is the ranking of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and member of the House Subcommissie for Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and Internet.
Bill called “Censorious Site-Blocking” measure
Although Lofgren said that its proposed foreign anti-digital piracy law “keeps the open internet”, the public knowledge of consumer protection described the bill as a “censural site-blocking” measure “that broadband providers change in the costs of copyright on the costs of Americans. “
“Instead of attacking the problem – the people who are brought overseas piracy websites to court – has decided to build a major infrastructure for censorship in the entertainment industry,” said Public Knowledge Senior Policy Advisor Meredith Rose. “Site-blocking orders force any service provider, from residential broadband providers to global DNS resolvers, to disturb the traffic from targeted websites accused of copyright. What is even more important, applying blocking orders on global DNS resolvers results in Global blocks. This means that a court can cut access to a website worldwide, based on the submission of a person and an accelerated procedure. Blocking orders are incredibly powerful weapons, ripe for abuse, and we have seen the messy consequences of them that are implemented in other countries. “
