Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate.

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

  • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There will be a follow up bill called Act to Mandate Aggressive Zero-Exception Bans on Anonymous Login & Secure Networks that makes VPNs, TOR, etc illegal. I think they’re working on it in the UK already.