Larry Downes on IP enforcement online

On this week's podcast, Larry Downes, who writes for CNet, blogs at Forbes.com and the Technology Liberation Front, and is the author of several books, including most recently, The Laws of Disruption, discusses enforcement of intellectual property rights online. Downes talks about the Protect IP Act, a bill recently introduced into Congress that aims to curtail infringement of intellectual property rights online by so-called rogue websites. Downes argues that forcing intermediaries to blacklist domain names has the potential to "break the internet." He discusses how the rogue website problem could better be addressed and how the proposed bill could be improved.

Related Links


"Leahy's Protect IP bill even worse than COICA," by Downes
"Leahy's Protect IP Act: Why Internet content wars will never end," by Downes
"Internet Researchers Decry DNS-Filtering Legislation," Wired
"Son of COICA: New Copyright Bill Introduced," Center for Democracy & Technology

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