Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy re-introduced a new version of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) that was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last year but stalled out afterwards. The PROTECT IP Act has a narrower focus, which would allow the government to go after “rogue websites” containing pirated or infringed-upon content, and would allow for court orders against ISPs, search engines, ad networks and online payment processors to stop supporting such sites and for Google to stop linking to them. “The PROTECT IP Act targets the most egregious actors, and is an important first step to putting […]
