Lawmakers have introduced a new bill aimed to counter “foreign pirate sites”, as stated earlier Toront Freak. This bill, called Block Bed Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block Beard) Act, will be allowed to ask the federal court to stop pirate websites from the federal court.
Bilateral legislation headed by senses. Earlier this year, Representative Zoo Luffgran (DCA) introduced the foreign Anti-Digital Pirate Act (FADPA) in January, which would like to force ISPs to stop foreign pirate websites.
Under the Block Beard Act, a copyright holder who searches for violating content on a foreign website can ask the court to designate the online location as a “foreign pirate site”. The court will then consider whether the copyright holder is damaged by the violating content, as well as whether the site has been “designed” primarily for violating the content in the question.
If a court appoints the website a “foreign piracy site”, the copyright holder may request the court to order for consumers to prevent ISPs in the United States to prevent it from accessing it. It will also give site owners the opportunity to compete with the order and the “pirate site”.
A decade ago, efforts to stop the maritime piracy in the United States came from a wide blackout, which was protested by the proposed laws. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said earlier this year that site -stopping laws are “dangerous, unpredictable and ineffective”, because banning access to a site could potentially harm thousands of people using the same cloud infrastructure host or IP address. EFF also stated that blocking the site “Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Lucky
Nevertheless, the chef says that the Block Beard Act “will save creators and consumers equally from foreign criminal businesses wanting to steal our intellectual property and exploit Americans.”
