The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) sets up a system through which the US government can blacklist a pirate website from the Domain Name System, ban credit card companies ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Combating Online ...

Bipartisan anti-piracy legislation supported by the guilds nonetheless has stalled on technological and free-speech concerns. By Daniel Holloway When the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously ...

Leahy's Protect IP bill even worse than COICA Sen. Patrick Leahy today introduced a bill that gives the Justice Department expansive powers to block sites that violate copyright and trademark law. As ...

Online piracy and internet counterfeiting are unfortunate realities in our Information Age. On the Internet, a counterfeiter can sell consumers a pair of counterfeit Louboutins or a fake Hermes Birkin ...

It’s hard for me to be sympathetic to the entertainment industry and its frustration with online piracy. For the last decade industry executives have consistently focused on using the legal system to ...

The COICA bill, a piece of legislation that would eliminate a good deal of due process and free speech guarantees on the internet, is being succeeded by a new bill, the PROTECT IP Act. And yes, that’s ...

Watch out Google, Visa, and the domain name system—Congress has all of you in its sights. Now that the midterm elections in the US are over, the Senate this week will again take up S. 3804, the ...

U.S senators will introduce legislation this year targeting websites that traffic in digital piracy or counterfeited goods, said the primary sponsor of a controversial bill proposed in 2010 that would ...

Who says Congress never gets anything done? On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court ...

An early February federal government crackdown seized 82 domain names of Web sites accused of copyright violations. Dubbed Operation in Our Sites, the joint effort included the U.S. Justice Department ...

COICA, the bill that made waves last week as an affront to free speech and due process rights, was recently postponed, to the net’s great relief. While it seems to have been the kind of inflammatory ...