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'''Protect IP Act (S.968)''' also known as '''Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011''' is a proposed legislation introduced by Senator [[Patrick Leahy]] in the United States Senate Committee on Judiciary on May 12, 2011. The bill is supported by 40 Senators including Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah),Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). Under the provisions of the bill, the Department of Justice (DOJ) receives the authority to request for a court order against suspected foreign websites dedicated in infringing activities. The Attorney General will then be able to issue directives to search engines, domain name registry, registrars, internet advertising companies and financial transaction providers to stop doing business with rogue websites.<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN00968:@@@D&summ2=m& Bill Summary & Status S.968]</ref> <ref>[http://leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-PROTECTIPAct.pdf Proposed Protect IP Act of 2011]</ref> | '''Protect IP Act (PIPA or S.968)''' also known as '''Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011''' is a proposed legislation introduced by Senator [[Patrick Leahy]] in the United States Senate Committee on Judiciary on May 12, 2011. The bill is supported by 40 Senators including Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah),Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). Under the provisions of the bill, the Department of Justice (DOJ) receives the authority to request for a court order against suspected foreign websites dedicated in infringing activities. The Attorney General will then be able to issue directives to search engines, domain name registry, registrars, internet advertising companies and financial transaction providers to stop doing business with rogue websites.<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN00968:@@@D&summ2=m& Bill Summary & Status S.968]</ref> <ref>[http://leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-PROTECTIPAct.pdf Proposed Protect IP Act of 2011]</ref> | ||
The proposed Protect IP Act just like the [[SOPA|Support Online Piracy Act]] introduced at the House of Representatives is a bipartisan legislation and it not supported by many organizations and large technology companies, internet engineers and security experts, venture capitalist and civil libertarian communities and internet users because of the proposed strategies to be used against suspected infringing websites. According to Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law professor and author of the treatise American Constitutional Law, the bill's method to make the rogue websites vanish from the internet is a violation of the first Amendment. The members of the Senate is scheduled to vote for the passage of PIPA on January 24, 2012. However, Senator [[Ron Wyden]] promised that he will filibuster in the Senate floor against the bill. According to him. ''"I will be working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle over the next month to explain the basis for this widespread concern, and I intend to follow through on a commitment that I made more than a year ago, to filibuster this bill when the Senate returns in January."'' | |||
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Revision as of 21:58, 19 December 2011
Protect IP Act (PIPA or S.968) also known as Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 is a proposed legislation introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy in the United States Senate Committee on Judiciary on May 12, 2011. The bill is supported by 40 Senators including Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah),Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). Under the provisions of the bill, the Department of Justice (DOJ) receives the authority to request for a court order against suspected foreign websites dedicated in infringing activities. The Attorney General will then be able to issue directives to search engines, domain name registry, registrars, internet advertising companies and financial transaction providers to stop doing business with rogue websites.[1] [2]
The proposed Protect IP Act just like the Support Online Piracy Act introduced at the House of Representatives is a bipartisan legislation and it not supported by many organizations and large technology companies, internet engineers and security experts, venture capitalist and civil libertarian communities and internet users because of the proposed strategies to be used against suspected infringing websites. According to Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law professor and author of the treatise American Constitutional Law, the bill's method to make the rogue websites vanish from the internet is a violation of the first Amendment. The members of the Senate is scheduled to vote for the passage of PIPA on January 24, 2012. However, Senator Ron Wyden promised that he will filibuster in the Senate floor against the bill. According to him. "I will be working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle over the next month to explain the basis for this widespread concern, and I intend to follow through on a commitment that I made more than a year ago, to filibuster this bill when the Senate returns in January."