[x-pubpol] L.A. Times on E-PARASITES legislation

[Joly MacFie]

[Again via Lauren Weinstein]

"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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