News US Senators Introduce New Pirate Site Blocking Bill: Block BEARD

[NonNTFailure]

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill (PDF) in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff, aims to create a new legal mechanism to combat foreign piracy websites. Block BEARD is similar to the previously introduced House bill "FADPA", but doesn't directly mention DNS resolvers. [...] The site-blocking proposal seeks to amend U.S. copyright law, enabling rightsholders to request federal courts to designate online locations as a "foreign digital piracy site". If that succeeds, courts can subsequently order U.S. service providers to block access to these sites.

The Block BEARD bill broadly applies to service providers as defined in section 512(k)(1)(A) of the DMCA. This is a broad definition that applies to residential ISPs, but also to search engines, social media platforms, and DNS resolvers. Service providers with fewer than 50,000 subscribers are explicitly excluded, and the same applies to venues such as coffee shops, libraries, and universities that offer internet access to visitors. Unlike the FADPA bill introduced by Representative Lofgren earlier this year, the Senate bill does not specifically mention DNS resolvers. Block BEARD does not mention VPNs, but its broad definition of "service provider" could be interpreted to include them. The proposal states that providers have the option to contest their inclusion in a blocking order. Once an order is issued, they would have the freedom to choose their own blocking techniques. There are no transparency requirements mentioned in the bill, so if and how the public is informed is unclear.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/445046

 

[SilentShadow]

Boomers never heard of VPNs

 

[NonNTFailure]

This is kind of a dumb bill. What’s the point of banning pirating if everything’s going to be censored anyway?

 

[Grodd]

Boomers never heard of VPNs

 

[starystulejarz]

nooo don't block his beaaaaaaaaaaard

 

[starystulejarz]

Torrents will still be undefeated

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

Boomers never heard of VPNs

The payment from (((Disney))) and (((the others))) never stops.

 

[Dr. Butane]

Torrents will still be undefeated

Magnets ftw

 

[ForcedMarriageNow]

anyone attempting these sorts of bans is a terrorist and deserves to hang as such

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

Billions must torrent.
Total (((MPAA))) Death.
Total (((RIAA))) Death.
Total Pirate Victory.

 

[SmhChan]

Need more private trackers.

 

[unhingedsamsung]

Rip 4anime

 

[PersonalityChad]

Billions must torrent.

 

[CosmicInjustice]

What's up with the Internet regulation recently

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

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Based. That cuck on the left is a faggot because he's sucking off these (((executives))).

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

What's up with the Internet regulation recently

(((They))) are panicking. )))We((( have found out (((their))) lies.

 

[quizzity]

Rip 4anime

If they ever figure out a way to keep me from torrenting anime, I'll just use IRC

If they figure out how to stop that, I rope

I think I'll fill up an external hd today

 

[NonNTFailure]

Billions must torrent.
Total (((MPAA))) Death.
Total (((RIAA))) Death.
Total Pirate Victory.

 

[AsiaCel]

View attachment 1508620nooo don't block his beaaaaaaaaaaard

do not redeem the beard saar

 

[friedrllyudidntknow]

Gay and retarded. They're trying to rid us of our copes and soon they'll be nothing left.

 

[starystulejarz]

do not redeem the beard saar

we lost another one

 

[gluttony]

Boomers never heard of VPNs

 

[Pancakecel]

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