U.S. agencies and officials would get new powers to go after foreign websites that sell counterfeit goods and pirated music, movies and books under a bill passed on Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The bill, which supporters hope will set the stage for action next year, targets "rogue websites" in countries such as China that are outside the reach of U.S. law.
np2003
5:19 am on Nov 23, 2010 (gmt 0)
This is not internet censorship, this is protecting the rights of companies big and small which have devoted time and money developing their brands and content, only for it to be blatantly stolen. I suspect they will go after blatant copies of brand items.
graeme_p
8:22 am on Nov 23, 2010 (gmt 0)
@kaled, then why bring torrents into it at all? Great reaction to being shown to be wrong "I don't care". Of course it is stupid, and of course it would be more effective to choke off the money (as they have done to gambling sites), but you are not doing your argument any good by dragging in whatever issue you have with bit torrent.
kaled
12:36 pm on Nov 23, 2010 (gmt 0)
I didn't bring torrents into this - I merely responded! Take a look back if you don't believe me. However, since you feel passionately about torrents then by all means, tell me about the amazing software you have downloaded as such that can't be downloaded from regular websites. I have downloaded pretty obscure software and really big name software over the years, but never once have I encountered the problem "I wish I had a torrent client".
Maybe, if you are used to searching for music torrents, you find your software that way too, but that doesn't mean it is unavailable as a traditional download.
