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This article is confusing. At first it reads as if the DOJ gets to do the blocking without judicial oversight: "authorizes the Department of Justice to choke o
by brlewis 16y ago
This article is confusing. At first it reads as if the DOJ gets to do the blocking without judicial oversight: "authorizes the Department of Justice to choke off access to foreign sites, including ordering domestic ISPs..."
Then it sounds like there is judicial oversight, in that the bill "would authorize the Department of Justice to file an in rem civil action against a domain name, and seek a preliminary order from the court that the domain name is being used to traffic infringing material."
Then it sounds like the Attorney General can bypass judicial oversight: "According to the bill, the U.S. Attorney General would require the DOJ's intellectual property enforcement coordinator to post a list of the infringing sites. The AG may also expand the order to additional domains."