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Protect-IP Act

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New bill being put through Congress (some say rushed).
Full text of the bill.


Its purpose is to, ostensibly, combat copyright infringement by going after websites whose sole purpose is to spread copyrighted material.

Concerns have been raised over whether the measures and definitions the bill proposes are too vague, that the law may be simply unrealistic, that it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the internet, damage the DNS structure of the internet, will actually censor websites, etc., and perhaps most importantly--that it won't actually help.

Explanation by Fightforthefuture.

Video by DSPGaming(NSFW)--longer, and he won't get into Protect-IP until about 8 minutes in after he finishes recapping S.978.

Opinions?

I'm very wary of it and I plan to write my congressmen.
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