Get the latest tech news

Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name


There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “DEFEND IP Act.” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize...

None

Get the Android app

Or read this on r/technology

Read more on:

Photo of bill

bill

Photo of blocking

blocking

Related news:

News photo

System-level ad-blocking in Android

News photo

US Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers

News photo

Federal judge calls Flock search unconstitutional, as AOC and Bernie Sanders introduce bill to ban license plate readers