25.03.2015 - 08:12 [ Techdirt ]

How The Copyright Industry Wants To Undermine Anonymity & Free Speech: ‚True Origin‘ Bills

As we‘ve noted many times in the past, the entertainment industry likes to take a multi-pronged approach to its quixotic efforts to „stop piracy“ (which could be much better dealt with by simply giving the public more of what they want). Working on federal copyright law to continually expand it is one main strategy, but there are a lot of others as well, including pressuring private companies to voluntarily censor content, getting international trade agreements to force laws to change and… getting random state laws to force through big changes quietly.