Thread: Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act

Having first read about this, it sounded about 10000x worse, but it still a bad bill imo. Granted I would be highly surprised if it actually makes it into law. Apparently there will be 2 lists made, One of which handle through the courts (the must be shut down list) and then the DOJs own list that would be sites "encouraged" to be shut down by ISPs. A lot of this, of course, depends on your trust of the government to be just going after "copyright infringements."

...The bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to seek a court order requiring a registry or registrar to shut down a website "primarily designed" to infringe copyright. But even on those sites, there will be free speech protected by the U.S. Constitution, said John Morris, CDT's general counsel.

"There will be some lawful speech on the sites that are blocked," he said. "It's not blocking only unlawful speech, it's blocking some lawful speech as well."

The bill, if passed, could also embolden other countries to block U.S. websites, Morris said. A decade ago, France attempted to block Yahoo from selling Nazi memorabilia, and in recent years, Turkey has blocked YouTube because the site has refused to block access to content the Turkish government has determined to be illegal.

CDT Protests Bill Requiring Registrars to Enforce Copyright - PCWorld Business Center