The American representative Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) Today proposed a law that would allow copyright owners to obtain judicial orders that require Internet service providers to block access to foreign piracy websites. The bill would also force DNS suppliers to block sites.
Lofgren said in a Press release that she “works[ed] For more than a year with the technology, film and television industries “on” a proposal that has a remedy for copyright offenders located abroad that does not interrupt the free internet, except offenders. promulgate the bill.
The Lofgren press release includes an appointment by Charles Rivkin, president and CEO of Motion Picture Association (MPA). As we have previously writtenThe MPA has been urging Congress to approve a site locking law.
“More than 55 nations worldwide, including democracies such as Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, have established tools similar to those proposed by the representative Lofgren, and have successfully reduced the damage of piracy while protecting legal access To legal content, “Rivkin was summoned by saying in the Lofgren press release today.
Lofgren is the classification member of the Science, Space and Technology Committee of the House of Representatives and member of the Subcommittee of the Chamber of Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet.
The bill called “blocking of censorship sites”
Although Ere described the bill As a “censorship measure” that makes broadband suppliers into the copyright police at the expense of Americans. “
“Instead of attacking the problem in their source, by the people who lead to piracy websites abroad to court, service and their allies in the entertainment industry have decided to build a radical infrastructure for censorship,” Said Meredith Rose, public knowledge senior policy advisor, Meredith. “Sites lock orders force any service provider, from residential broadband suppliers to Global DNS resolutions, until the traffic of specific websites accused of copyright violation is interrupting. More importantly, the application, the application, the application of locking orders to the resolved global DNS results in Global Blocks This means that a court can cut access to a website worldwide, depending on the presentation of an individual and an issued procedure. Blocking orders are incredibly powerful, mature weapons for abuse, and we have seen the messy consequences of them being implemented in other countries“