Protect IP Act/Stop Online Piracy Act
Nov. 18th, 2011 04:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ramblin_rosieThere's been a lot of very flaily rhetoric going around LJ about these bills and very little actual news anywhere that I've found, at least in my corner of the Internet. If you somehow haven't heard yet, the short version is that these bills seek to put the kabosh on online piracy by forcing ISPs to do dodgy things with DNS redirects, which conflicts with current ongoing improvements in DNS security.
Content questions aside--and the apparent lack of consideration for fair use *does* bother me, though I still think some of the rhetoric on both sides is hyperbolic--this article is the clearest and calmest discussion of the technical questions involved that I've been able to find, and it explains exactly how and why the proposed method of enforcement undermines cybersecurity. And there is still the question, as with so many issues currently before Congress, of why in the world the solution is more regulation instead of improving enforcement of the regulations we already have. (It would help, too, if Hollyweird and the music industry would take a good hard look at their business models; protecting intellectual property and proper compensation is important, but surely there's a better way for studios to go at it than what they're doing now.)
Online piracy does need to be stopped. The method proposed in these bills is not the way to do it.
Content questions aside--and the apparent lack of consideration for fair use *does* bother me, though I still think some of the rhetoric on both sides is hyperbolic--this article is the clearest and calmest discussion of the technical questions involved that I've been able to find, and it explains exactly how and why the proposed method of enforcement undermines cybersecurity. And there is still the question, as with so many issues currently before Congress, of why in the world the solution is more regulation instead of improving enforcement of the regulations we already have. (It would help, too, if Hollyweird and the music industry would take a good hard look at their business models; protecting intellectual property and proper compensation is important, but surely there's a better way for studios to go at it than what they're doing now.)
Online piracy does need to be stopped. The method proposed in these bills is not the way to do it.
