Friday, 18 November 2011

Canadian BitTorrent Sites Dominate Rogue Website Lists in SOPA Submissions « James Gannon's IP Blog

Canadian BitTorrent Sites Dominate Rogue Website Lists in SOPA Submissions « James Gannon's IP Blog
Yesterday, hearings began in the United States House of Representatives on H.R. 3261, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). Witnesses from the U.S. Library of Congress, Pfizer, the MPAA, MasterCard and the AFL-CIO all voiced support for the Act, which would give judges injunction-granting powers against ISPs to block rogue piracy websites similar to the process that has been in place over a decade under Article 8(3) of the EU Copyright Directive.

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