Despite its name, the DEFEND IP Act would instead incentivize censorship,…

Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name

There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “DEFEND IP Act.” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize...