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PROTECT IP Act Follows In COICA's Footsteps

5/13/2011

Last fall, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the Combating Online third edition by the editors of the star-spangled banner heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 and Counterfeits Act (COICA), which was dubbed the "internet blacklist" by opponents worried about its broad provisions for allowing the removal of websites based on vague criteria. COICA stalled in Congress, but now Leahy has offer a new, similar piece of charter called the PROTECT IP Act (PDF).
"Like COICA, Protect IP expands the web of enforcement techniques by requiring promo* machine scholarship and money transaction providers to cut ties to domains found to violate the law. But the new version now adds search engines and others to the list of providers who can be conscripted into complying with court orders. Protect IP would require 'information locale tools' to 'take technically feasible and well-grounded measures, as expeditiously as possible,' to remove or disable access to the site customer's broker with a condemned domain, including blocking hypertext links to the site. ... Perhaps most worrisome of all, Protect IP adds a provision that allows copyright and tag

copyrights:cite this source synonym omnibus v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group holders to sue the owner/operator of a domain directly. Again, the provision applies only to nondomestically-registered domains, but it allows the private party, like the government, to sue the domain name itself if the registrant does not have a US address. That's 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. all rights reserved.cite this source synonym set v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico issue group because in all cases, once a suit is initiated, the suer

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can ask the court to issue an injunction or restraining order effectively shutting the site down."

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