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Leaders of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee have circulated proposed changes to a controversial bill that would force domain name registrars to shut down websites that allegedly infringe copyright, but the tweaks don't go far enough for some critics.
The proposed amendments to the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act would strike provisions in the bill that would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to create a blacklist of infringing websites, according to information from the Judiciary Committee. The changes would also lessen the requirements that Internet service providers and payment processors must take against infringing websites.
But the proposed amendments circulated by sponsors of the bill would not change provisions allowing the DOJ to obtain court orders requiring domain name registrars and registries to shut down websites "primarily designed" to offer infringing products, as determined by the DOJ.
