Lawmakers Introduce Site-Blocking Legislation To Curb Foreign Piracy

Lawmakers Introduce Site-Blocking Legislation To Curb Foreign Piracy

House and Senate lawmakers are again turning their attention to major anti-piracy legislation, introducing a bill in which content owners can seek a court order to require that internet providers prevent access to foreign digital piracy sites. The Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property, or DEFEND IP Act, was introduced by lawmakers […]

Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sites — yet fuzzy location rules could trigger heavy-handed bans

Proposed federal bill would force ISPs, DNS services, and VPN providers to block foreign piracy sites — yet the definition of "from the United states" gets murky

Tillis-Led Bill Would Allow Courts To Block Foreign Piracy Websites

WASHINGTON, D.C. – North Carolina U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is among a bipartisan group of lawmakers backing legislation that would give federal courts authority to order internet service providers to block certain foreign websites accused of large-scale copyright piracy. Tillis, a Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, introduced the Deterring Extraterritorial […]