PROTECT-IP Makes Its Way To the Floors of Congress

New submitter trunicated writes "Everyone on Slashdot seems to know about PROTECT-IP Act — how it will push responsibility for the contents of the internet onto the search engines that index it, how it will give even more power to the *IAA industries, and, worst of all, how it will provide the U.S. government with a kill switch they can use at their discretion. However, this write up may provide you with a bit more information and help you explain the issues to those that won't be able to get around the poisoned DNS entries that this bill will allow."

It's not the PROTECT-IP Act.

[Pluvius]

It's now known as the E-PARASITE Act. Normally I wouldn't bother posting over something so trivial, but the new name is so poetically apt that I have to mention it.

Rob

Re:It's not the PROTECT-IP Act.

[mrquagmire]

Sign the white house petition here: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/stop-e-parasite-act/SWBYXX55 [whitehouse.gov]

Re:hmmm

[Thing 1]

As I read about the poisoned DNS entries, I pause to edit /etc/hosts

Yeah, a while ago (3 months and a day, my comment shows) I stopped Facebook's ability to monitor me, at least from this computer. Added to /etc/hosts:

# screw facebook 2011-07-31
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

I'll likely do the same once the details of this are known...

Re:It's not the PROTECT-IP Act.

[techno-vampire]

In order to sign that petition, you have to have an account at whitehouse.gov. If you click on the "WHY," it tells you that you have to have an account there in order to sign petitions. So much for a "transparent administration."