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Rep. Issa Files Competing U.S. Pirate Site Blocking Bill * TorrentFreak

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Rep. Issa Files Competing U.S. Pirate Site Blocking Bill * TorrentFreak

Home > Law and Politics > U.S. Representative Darrell Issa has officially introduced a new bill that aims to block foreign pirate sites in the United States. While the final text has yet to be published, an early draft suggests that both ISPs and DNS resolvers will be covered. The bill has already triggered opposition, … Read more

U.S. Site Blocking Bill Adds VPNs to the List of Blocking Intermediaries * TorrentFreak

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Rep. Issa Files Competing U.S. Pirate Site Blocking Bill * TorrentFreak

Home > Law and Politics > VPN providers with over 100,000 American users could be ordered to block pirate sites under the bill Rep. Darrell Issa introduced last week. The full text shows that VPNs were added after last year’s discussion draft, which only mentioned ISPs and DNS resolvers. How a VPN should block access … Read more