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UPDATE, 1:50 PM: Movie studios took Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and California Rep. Darrell Issa to task today after they unveiled draft anti-piracy legislation that could serve as an alternative to the Senate’s PROTECT IP Act and the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act. The two current bills have created a furor about how to police overseas Web sites that traffic in pirated entertainment: Content companies want to give federal officials authority to block the sites. Tech companies say that would put too much power into the government’s hands, which could lead to abuses. The MPAA supports PROTECT IP and SOPA, and challenged a key part of Wyden and Issa’s legislation: They would have the U.S. International Trade Commission, instead of federal courts, handle anti-piracy cases. That “allows companies profiting from online piracy to advocate for foreign rogue websites against rightful American copyright holders,” says Michael O’Leary, MPAA’s Senior EVP Global Policy and External Affairs. ITC is set up to oversee patent cases, not criminal ones, and therefore would favor tech companies that deal with patent law all the time, he adds. But Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) — a co-sponsor of the new legislation, called the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act –told The Hill blog that it’s ”a good starting point for future discussions on how to best protect U.S. intellectual property rights.”
PREVIOUS, WEDNESDAY PM: Here’s more on that joint MPAA/studio moguls/Hollywood guilds lobbying in Washington DC today from news reports. The MPAA moguls led by News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch included Fox Filmed Entertainment’s Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman, Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes, Warner Bros’ Barry Meyer, Walt Disney Studios’ Rich Ross, and Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Michael Lynton converged on Capitol Hill to solidify support for two antipiracy bills moving through Congress – the Senate’s Protect IP Act and the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Hollywood Big Media are lined up against Internet companies such as Google. Its Chairman Eric Schmidt today told lawmakers that Congress would be making a big mistake to pass the Hollywood-backed laws. Opponents including much of Silicon Valley plan to present alternative legislation Thursday, a week before the scheduled markup of the House measure. Backed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Or) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Ca), it will narrow the definition of a rogue website and curb private lawsuits.
The Hollywood studios are among 350 large corporations who have come out in favor of SOPA and PIPA. Opponents besides Google and other Internet companies include the Consumer Electronics Association which according to Forbes claims SOPA ”allows movie studios, foreign luxury goods manufacturers, patent and copyright trolls, and any holder of any intellectual property right to target lawful U.S. websites and technology companies”. Each side has spent roughly $90 million on lobbying efforts. Allegations are that Big Media have donated millions of dollars to individual senators and representatives supporting the legislation over the course of their careers.
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Well, if all the lobbying doesn’t work out, they still can try to make some good movies for once. Or let me watch a DVD I bought without making me sit through non-skippable commercials. Or let me enjoy an evening at the movies with my family for less cash than a full-price videogame with dozens of hours of gametime costs. Or…
Hollywood majors deserve everything the internet brought onto them.
This is the most idiotic comment I’ve ever heard. Without studio support and producer’s ability to make money, film as we know it will stop being made. Do you like film? Because when there’s no money to be made in it you’re going to get a lot of self-produced films exactly like you get on YouTube. Enjoy the homemade revolution of movies about Lolcats and baby’s doing cute things.
There are literally millions of people who work in the film business and rely on it to feed their families and with piracy it’s made it harder to produce films that “might” make money so studios chose to only make surefire winners, which, as it turns out, are giant summer franchises. Piracy has destroyed the middle class of films. Thanks to YOU.
maybe film as we know it SHOULD be stopped.
so we can get back to real storytelling and not power mad despotic agents thrusting their most recent boy toy on the public.
Oh boo hoo. I’m tired of hearing the MPAA Kool-Aid inspired whining about how piracy has ruined the Hollywood middle class. First, check into the real impact of Piracy on our bottom line (hint: don’t believe the MPAA figures. It’s like believing the DEA estimate of street value of a drug bust…) Then, look at how the MPAA companies have resisted opening up content to new outlets and tried to preserve their deteriorating distribution windows, instead of taking their cue from 21st century marketing companies like Google or Amazon. These companies are developing persistent customer relationships that translate into cash. We are wedded to an outdated model, not overrun by IP pirates. You should direct your anger at the MPAA companies (and the Exhibitors) who, by clinging to the old ways, are abolishing the Hollywood middle class. Piracy strategy? Make content available legitimately at a fair price on all platforms using savvy marketing and cross promotions. The pirates can’t compete with that…
I love these bullshit arguments. Okay John Tarnoff, when your car is stolen, let’s see how you like it when the police turn around and say, well it was only worth $5,000, so that’s okay, we’re not going to prosecute the thief. The economic damage of piracy is understated. And in any case, the figure is irrelevant. Theft is theft regardless of value. And you cannot force people to sell you stuff at a price you find acceptable by saying if you don’t sell it to me for a price I like, I’m going to steal it anyway. That’s called extortion. If you don’t like what the studios charge, don’t watch their movies. Nothing gives you or others the right to steal their property.
Making a copy of a car is not stealing it. John still has his car even if a internet pirate makes copies of it and gives them away.
Another bullshit argument. If you tried to replicate your Honda and gave thousands of those replicas away for free, you can bet your ass Honda would sue you for intellectual property infringement. The difference is it would cost millions of dollars to replicate a Honda because you’d need to invest in a manufacturing facility, but once you have a computer it costs virtually nothing to rip a movie and put it online.
Don’t worry. Hollywood will not die. Only the film industry will. Actors and directors will migrate to television. They’re already doing it right now.
And how many of your formative memories came from the movies? How many of your social references, jokes, conversations with your friends came from the movies? The studios have lost their way, but that’s cyclical, Hollywood always loses touch with society every 15 years or so, and then it comes back with a vengeance. Don’t write off an entire art form because a few greedy assholes are making a bunch of bad decisions right now.
Really? No comments about this? This just further proves that not enough people are educated about this issue or simply do not care. Do any of you Deadline daily viewers (who control most of Hollywood) even know what this bill proposes and how the government plans to enforce the regulations? Granted, this MAY help the overall issue of piracy on the web — or it may likely have little impact. We’ve all seen attempts made… When the record companies took down Napster did it stop the sharing of music? No. The pirates evolved and learned news ways to distribute copyrighted content. They will find ways even if this bill goes through. And in the meantime, the government will have passed a bill that is so vague, so broad that we will have forfeited rights that we hadn’t realized we were giving up. This is just an opportunity for the government to put their foot in the door of an industry they were otherwise bystanders to and control what we can access on the web. This bill needs to be scrapped and re-written with. I’m all for protecting our business but don’t want the entire internet to suffer as a result. This could change everything…for the worse.
And there’s a reason why most of Silicon Valley including Google, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and some of your own elected officials (those savvy enough to understand) oppose this bill. Do you want to have internet censorship like the Great Firewall of China?
“Essentially, this bill would give the government more control into shutting down websites they don’t agree with in general. Anti-American sentiment promoted on Twitter, Tumblr or another one of our clients that promotes free discourse? Both the sites themselves and Dyn as their DNS provider could be penalized for simply providing a conduit in which someone can access or promote views the government doesn’t agree with — regardless of whether the source is based in the U.S. or not. The Great Firewall of America? Yep, kinda feels like that. SOPA is a shot across the bow of free speech and as one of the largest Internet IaaS companies in the world, we cannot endorse it in any way, shape or form.”
Big Tech and Eric Schmidt’s lobbying campaign (online) has paid dividends… Ignorance about this bill seems to reign supreme among those that attack it with doomsday rhetoric.
Google once made the address books of its loyal users public. Google currently provides millions of referrals to sites offering free copies of books, movies, music, etc.
Google has done very little to even acknowledge copyrights. I saw a DMCA listing on Google FOR THE FIRST TIME this week 13 years after that law was passed. They finally got around to it since they’re under pressure. Just as Viacom’s lawsuit forced youtube’s hand in the past.
This summer, on gigaom, the latest data indicated that 16% of ALL broadband traffic was bit torrent.
Those of us who work to create content shouldn’t have its theft facilitated by Big Tech as they look the other way and profit from the transaction through ad sales. If they had been reasonable at any point, such broad legislation never would have been written.
All the hysteria is transparently false. And why Deadline is linking to a junky propaganda site like techdirt I have no idea. That site has no credibility whatsoever.
Those opposed to this legislation include more than just technology corporations with profit motives. They also include a legion of the very computer scientists who built the internet itself. The risk for disruption to DNS is simply unacceptable.
Moreover, this is an assault on safe harbor and net neutrality. Internet providers should not be tasked to police the information that flows over its wires, any more than a phone company is responsible for the words that are said over theirs. That’s why safe harbor exists in the DMCA to begin with.
Next, this legislation is unjust as it allows private corporations to take down entire websites with a mere accusation and without any due process. This is astonishing, and another reason why organizations like the EFF are leading the charge to stop this madness.
It’s astonishing how much power such a small group of private corporations wield in compelling our country to focus on phantom piracy losses through more and more shockingly draconian IP laws, instead of allowing the already scarce resources of our government to focus on growing our country for the future and encouraging innovation, rather than protecting legacy business models.
The same media companies were absolutely fearful of VHS and then DVDs eroding their markets, which are now cash cow secondary markets after theatrical. Instead of draconian legislation and half-assed attempts at introducing anything innovative, they need to embrace technology and entice consumers like Apple does with breakthrough new offerings. If they don’t get their act together ASAP, I promise you the new Apple Television will grab the film/TV market share the same way iTunes and the iPod did for music. Perhaps as early as next year. When is one of these big media companies going to get someone in charge who has some freaking vision of what the future could be like?
Hey Star,
Want to provide any proof to your statement that techdirt has no credibility?
Has anyone read SOPA? It is an extremely dangerous act that threatens free speech and expression. It runs against so many messages of independence and pro-art in Hollywood films and American-made TV productions. The paradigm of information sharing and entertainment consumerism has shifted in the last 10 years. Rather than embrace the fact that more people globally are watching their product than ever before, and then discussing it via images and clips on social websites, Hollywood is using all of its power and money—the 1% ahem—to dictate and patrol the web.
Like the even scarier, Orwellian National Defense Act, SOPA strikes first and asks questions later, if ever. That’s not hyperbole. Do some research. Theoretically, a Hollywood studio, a big producer, etc can flag a hundred websites that are felt to violate copyright and those sites will be removed. Gone. Zapped. Blacklisted. SOPA targets not only shady sites that distribute copyrighted movies through torrents. It threatens sites like Tumblr, YouTube competitors, fan made videos, fan sites, you name it. The act is akin to destroying the marshland of the web, where ideas and new life are given to forms of old media by the minute. It threatens to turn the web, with Facebook’s colluded, privacy-mining assistance, into a digital Time Square. The web is often not pretty or polite, agreed. Such is life. The pro-SOPA commercial that is circulating, that’s funded by Hollywood dollars, is a joke. Let’s guilt and further bribe U.S. politicians by decrying the loss of jobs created by piracy and the web. There is no hard, objective data to support this. At all. Hollywood has taken a hit due to video games, due to breakthroughs in interactivity. Due to its inability to experiment with the form, and its bloated product, like comedies that run over two hours that rely on crude humor. On Transformers 4, 5, and 6. Oh, and due to the crappiest sequel it didn’t make, the Great Depression 2: Jobless Millenials.
Americans are struggling. There is little time for them to really look into SOPA and the National Defense Act. And channels like CNN and Fox News certainly aren’t doing a thing to inform them. Wonder why. Speak up against these cretins. The 1% is going down. Their desperate measures are just that.
The “Happy Birthday” song, I understand, is under copyright. With “soundhound” apps from Apple the iCloud can tell you the name of any song you sing into it. So could the studio-union combo hear you singing your song on your youtube video, and those lovely songs you sing to relatives, little cuts of footage you made, could be banned and your browser may shut your website down. Ditto any little documentaries you made with footage from youtube or elsewhere. The bosses at the WGA claim that anything that moves or talks or is the result of anything “written” falls under the WGAw jurisdiction. There are plenty of available laws against piracy. Plenty of pirates here and abroad have been shut down legally and for good, and actual “pirates” are easily spotted today. This is about something altogether different, the attempt by commercial interests to control public art, and claim it as their own property, so they can profit. If you’ve ever been hacked or had a youtube video taken down for no explicable reason, you have felt the quick and eerie sting of the unseen forces on the internet. Giving these forces to the control of Rupert Murdock or John Wells or SAG or Universal Pictures will not be in the interests of human intellectual flow (sic) , as we know it today. My lawsuit RICHERT VS WGAW is still in court, with a settlement that has been breached. It is the result of secret dealings between the unions and studios dating back to 1989, and has resulted in the unions and studios controlling the copyrights of tens of thousands of US non-union and union writers. Even today my writers’ class is struggling to be heard, after 6 years in court and lies on union websites. There should be no further grabs from these conspiratorial grabbers of freedom and art. The internet may change from other means, of course, but it should not be “SHUT DOWN” or “PENCILS DOWN” as the WGA likes to say…
Bullshit. The ‘marshlands of the Internet’, which have given us endless videos of dogs shitting, or kids talking crap high on nitrous oxide, will remain intact. As will brilliantly creative viral short films and interactive entertainment. Because the people who created them – and that’s the important thing, they actually created them – own the copyright. If a DVD retailer is found to repeatedly sell pirated discs they will be shut down and prosecuted. Why should it be any different for the Internet? This is not a threat to free speech. It is a threat to thieves who continue to steal copyrighted material that people have invested millions to create. And we’re not talking about the 1%; we’re talking about hardworking crew, actors, technicians and all the support services that rely on a healthy television and movie industry. We’re talking about taking steps to protect peoples’ livelihoods. Google is one of the richest companies in the world, all this act will do is hold it and other tech companies accountable for their systematic facilitation of intellectual property theft, which has been going on unabated for years. Don’t try and make this a free speech issue because it’s not. And don’t try and make this a little guy versus big guy issue because it is not. That’s a ridiculous argument to make when the opponents of this bill are even more powerful and wealthy than the media companies backing it. And don’t try to make the lobbying seem in some way suspect – the tech companies have spent over $90 million trying to quash this bill. This is about taking the rule of law online, pure and simple.
Really, you think this is at all enforceable? How’s that drug war going? And you think that “pirate” money would go to the crew (of which I am one)? Are you for real?
Very easily enforceable. YouTube already use software to recognize when copyrighted material is uploaded. They can tell from the digital pattern of the file what a song is. Equating this to the drugs war is nonsense. Drugs are not sold by publicly traded corporations. Piracy is made possible because the ISPs, broadband providers, search engines and other tech companies facilitate it. Unlike drug dealers, those technology companies have an obligation to obey the law, which is why SOPA is so important. It enables copyright law to catch up with the massive changes in technology that have taken place in the past two decades. And out of interested, how much stolen material do you have on your hard drive?
Sorry, Fan, but that’s not how SOPA is going to work. It’s a “shoot first, ask questions later” approach that completely does away with due process. If you think it’s not going to be used by large, established companies to fuck with the independent creators you idealize, you probably also believed it when someone offered you a part in exchange for a blow job.
Look, we ALL agree that piracy is bad. But SOPA isn’t going to end piracy. It’s just going to clog up both the courts and the Internet. You talk about the people in the trenches–it’s going to make life hell for the network engineers whose job it is to keep Internet connections running smoothly. If you’re very, very lucky, they won’t rebel and start cutting off access to the sites of the Hollywood corps that made their working lives miserable. But I’d count on geeks taking this quietly, like I’d count on that part after the blow job.
Couldnt have said it better myself. Kudos. Piracy is bad but so is SOPA. Its not the answer but we know we need to find one. WE ALL AGREE PIRACY NEEDS TO STOP. This just isnt the way. We need to work harder to find the right one. And spend that ridiculous amount of money that you are using to promote or destroy this bill and spend it on IT security.
The double standards are amazing. People are up in arms about the lack of financial regulation on Wall Street, which is a huge problem. But the moment someone suggests regulating the Internet even slightly, it provokes an extremely hostile reaction. This isn’t going to mean the end of the Internet, it isn’t going to give Big Media the chance to shut down poor innocent websites. It’s just going to make it more difficult for people to steal other peoples’ property. And bring an end to an era of regarding copyright theft as okay, because hey, who gets hurt?
Ahh,the best government money Can buy. ….”Each side has spent roughly $90 million on lobbying efforts.”
That’s the most depressing thing about all this. Equality for those that can afford it. At least corruption in the US is an above the board multi-million dollar business. No brown envelopes like other shady parts of the world.
Google and other Internet companies know that a large part of the Web’s popularity is due to the free and illegal availability of copyrighted content. But that’s only part of the reason that they’re fighting this. As owner of YouTube, Google has a vested interest in driving down the asset value of traditional media companies. It makes the purchase of media content cheaper, it maintains their dominant position as the world’s video portal, and it keeps the traditional media companies in fear and weakness. There will come a time when YouTube has established itself as an entertainment encumbent. At that point Google will suddenly find it has the ability to prevent the identification, distribution and viewing of copyrighted material and will heartily endorse this kind of Federal measure. The problem is timing; strategically Google is not quite where it wants to be just yet, and this kind of legal protection will give the traditional media corporations protection that could disadvantage Google. Taking greedy corporate self interest out of the equation for a moment; would the technology companies like their patents protected in a narrow way that would curb private lawsuits? Of course they wouldn’t. They are being disingenuous in trying to deny the same kind of protections to others that they regularly enforce themselves. Media and entertainment, like all other intellectual property, has economic value. Media companies big and small should have the opportunity to go after US technology companies if it can be shown that they are facilitating the theft or unauthorized use of copyrighted material.
Well, as much as I hate taking a break from my work faking the next moon landing….
Google and YouTube have been MORE than accommodating in removing copyrighted material. They aren’t under any legal obligation to remove “rogue” websites from their listings but they do. If they really wanted to drive down the value of traditional media companies it would seem they would do far more to allow listings to slip through but they don’t. Name one recent movie you can type into a Google search and get a free-and-clear full copy of and I’ll eat my words.
Just one. Just give me one – and I’m not talking on page 12 of the listings, how about within the first 10 pages. Come on, let’s have it!
What difference does it make whether the link is listed on page 12 or page 112? The fact is it is still listed. Copyright enforcement is fought most heavily by people who like the idea of free stuff. It would be interesting to know how many illegal copies of songs, films and tv programs each of the above posters has on their hard drives. I have none, not one single piece of illegally obtained material, because I know what it does to the industry.
While Murdoch is in court having his day, maybe we should ask him and all of the studios to open up their balance book and see what it is they are truly protecting!
The internet gives the writer producer all the power. Some may say that if content is king then Google could be King Kong. But the winner will always be the creator. Does this bill protect the creator. No. It doesn’t. The internet is the truest form of democracy we now have. Just take a look at the Arab Spring. “This has nothing to do with copyright” yes it does. Of course it does. The internet doesn’t belong to anyone one. It belongs to us all.
Do you honestly think Murdoch gives a crap about democracy. He would destroy all unions if he was given half the chance. Take a look at the UK. Take a look at what that man’s policies did to a young girl who was brutally murdered by a serial killer. Now we are to believe that his bill has the creators best interests at heart. COME ON!! Wake up.
This bill is not about protecting the creators of content it’s about protecting the wallet of those that have had the power to abuse the writers, producers, actors and musicians for way to long. If 100.million people illegally download a piece of content. Music.Film. TV. That’s 100 million eyeballs.
This bill will fail even if it passes. The internet is here. For good. For bad. It’s here. The old archaic ways of monopolized networks and studios is over.
I’m not worried. I trust the studio’s legal departments to be wise and kind. Oh, and buy Eurobonds.
I am outraged. This is censorship so how dare the Guilds get involved. It’s expected by the studios.
If there is a crime wave, you go after the criminals, you don’t put a whole city under lockdown. SOPA fires off a cannon to kill a flea and is further erosion of the Internet. Remember that Hitler got elected by people who figured, hey, he’ll get rid of the Communists, and then we can control him. No one will be able to un-ring SOPA’s bell.
Google networth as of now ? 500 billion
Google networth when it gets a perma ban for life ?
1 dollar
lets do it !!!!
We already have too many overburdening laws solely designed to circumvent the constitution in the name of big media protection.
They are already laws to deal with these issues. Creating new policies and actions to circumvent the legal system is disgraceful. There is already a mounting concern against the way the government is allowing the seizure of websites to take place in other areas. None of this is going to stand up.
The idea that we would hold people who are involved in significantly more harmful and dangerous crimes up to due process but continue to create special exemptions for ip theft is insane. What if the retailers in this country lobbied that all shoplifters apprehended in stores be sent to Guantonemo Bay. Would people be okay with that?
There are already a massive number of laws these same people have gotten on the books to deal with these crimes. Use them.
Part of me hopes it passes just so media companies and other third parties can claim infringement and get all their domains taken away.
Imagine a writer who claims they had their idea stolen. They could get the movie website seized and perhaps even all the movie studio domains seized.
This legislation is all about act first , fact find later. So again part of me wants it to pass just so all the big media companies can have their websites seized with no due process. Imagine the wall street journal shut down because someone made an infringement claim.
The USPS and the movie and music industry are very similar. They are both losing tons of money because they refuse to adapt to new technology. That is the main problem with the music and movie industry, not piracy.
The first question to ask about any law is: “How can this be abused?”
Well, Google on ” DaJaz1.com”
Domain seized. Government hides its actions from domain owner for almost a year, preventing owner from challenging action. Then the feds say, “oh, never mind.” No recompense, no recourse for loss of business. This abuse isn’t theoretical, this abuse *just happened.*
This pattern, of prior restraint plus the use of sealed court proceedings to prevent the target from defending themselves, will be the norm under SOPA/PIPA. Site owners will be convicted first, then tried in secret as was DaJaz1.com.
The goal of the copyright cartel in this legislation is not the protection of jobs. It is the ability to shut down any site that criticizes, whistleblows, or otherwise annoys the moguls or their minions, and by those examples chill free speech on the net.
The safest way to stop piracy is to go after the money. Prior restraint, especially in the absence of due process as is the case with this legislation, is just too ripe for abuse.
SOPA= Me no Like-a
Perhaps we shouldn’t be paying Tim Burton nearly as much money to direct Alice in Wonderland as we paid Bob Iger to run the company that made it. Perhaps we shouldn’t be paying Taylor Lautner nearly as much money as the CEO of Cisco. Hollywood is making plenty of money… the problem is that there is a bloated elite who demand tens of millions of dollars to appear in Twilight movies. Adam Sandler made more money JUST for producing and starring in Just Go With It and Jack and Jill than the 6th highest paid CEO in the world made for running a multi-billion dollar company. The problem isn’t piracy… the problem is bloat.
well fucking said!!!
What could go wrong in this crusading fight?
Techdirt has very interesting real life article on how one music site was taken down..for a year..except it was legal:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/08225217010/breaking-news-feds-falsely-censor-popular-blog-over-year-deny-all-due-process-hide-all-details.shtml
Simple rule to follow when talking about Legislation: If the MPAA is for it, you should be against it.
It would be a return to the bad old days in the late 1990s when Fox trawled the Internet taking down any fan site it could find hosting Simpsons images. Only a whole lot worse.
Hollywood produces mostly garbage, they should be happy they are doing as well as they are. Why would anyone want to see dreck like “New Years Eve”, even for free? The Hollywood 1% fat-cats are talentless and completely overpaid, and probably the least sympathetic/likable people on the planet.
If the cost of films is we treat ip theft as the most important crime in our society that requires hundreds of special laws and removal of due process then I am in favor of the film industry as we know it going away.
Here is a clue for you, that would not be the end of film just the end of the bloated self important media machine that has lost its place.
This is some of the worst proposed legislation we have seen in decades. It is insane and wholly unnecessary.
Perhaps requiring a 500 million dollar bond to go to the victims if falselessly accused would help balance this.
Undoubtedly the MPAA has 1000s of domains to take down the second they steal this criminal legislation
I don’t think you know how the rest of the Internet or piracy works. There is nothing here that is going to protect your keygrip job.
You dont even understand the proposed legislation. It would be like you could call the police and have a guy sent to prison who was walking down your street because you think he looks like a car thief
That assumes the police will act because you think someone looks like a car thief. At the end of the day this act gives the studios no power other than to make a complaint to a Federal agency who will investigate the complaint and decide upon a course of action. It’s not like we’ve suddenly given the studios sheriff badges and told them to go enforce their own laws.
Lol is that what you think it is? It is more like the studios email a list of domains they dont like and the government ceases them.
The funniest part of all this is it will have no impact on piracy. The government can only seize domains under tlds controlled by the us government. The other 100 tlds they can do nothing about. It is going to circumvent due process, be used as a bullying and harassment tool and not impact piracy at all.