Another week, another attempt by the legacy copyright players to find a way to enact SOPA via the backdoor. As we‘ve been covering quite a bit lately, the Sony hack has revealed how „site blocking“ (the key part of SOPA — which is more accurately described as censoring parts of the internet) is still a major priority for the the legacy copyright industry, and they‘re exploring all sorts of ways to make it happen, from new lawsuits to new legislation to trade agreements to pressure on third parties to local politicians to the International Trade Commission to attacks on encryption and more.

It appears that the strategy of using lawsuits is now well underway with the major labels all teaming up to sue the site MP3Skull. That site has been around for a while, and is one quite frequently cited by copyright maximalists as an example of a „bad“ player in helping people find unauthorized copies of music.