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This is very important to all domain name owners & Blog & website owners...anyone doing any business online.
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Dan
This is very important to all domain name owners & Blog & website owners...anyone doing any business online.
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PROTECT IP, the U.S. government’s legislation to target individuals and domains connected with allegations of copyright infringement, is set to cost millions of dollars to enforce. According to a Congressional Budget Office estimate, PROTECT IP – which is designed to benefit US-based entertainment companies – will cost the taxpayer a cool $47m between 2012 and 2016.
The Protect IP Act (an acronym for Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property) is a bill introduced earlier this year aimed at combating online copyright infringement.
ARTICLE WITH LINKS CONTINUES AT: Torrent Freak
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By its very nature, leading search engine Google will be affected by the new legislation. Recently executive chairman Eric Schmidt spoke out against PROTECT IP-style censorship during the company’s Big Tent conference in London, saying that the company would fight demands to carry out web blocking.
In addition to the 90 law professors who are opposing the legislation, Demand Progress is running a campaign urging Congress to Reject The Act Here.
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Dan