PROTECT IP Act

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Protest in the English language Wikipedia on January 18, 2012

The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act , or PROTECT IP Act or PIPA , is a US bill that was introduced to the Senate on December 5, 2011 by Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy . Similar to the Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ), PIPA should enable American copyright holders to prevent the unlawful distribution of their content on the Internet, among other things by blocking DNS .

The Wikimedia Foundation also joined the protests against SOPA and PIPA by online companies, internet activists and security experts , as the law would allow rightsholders to "put internet filters and blocks in place without independent judicial review."

The vote on the draft in the Senate was suspended on December 21, 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. S.968 - PROTECT IP Act of 2011 site of the US Congress, accessed on August 23, 2020 (English).
  2. TC Sottek: Under pressure, PIPA author to propose 'further study' on DNS blocking. Vox Media (theverge.com) January 13, 2012
  3. Protect IP Act Pros and Cons: Everything You Need to Know Upcounsel, accessed on August 23, 2020.
  4. ^ Reymer Klüver: Protest against SOPA and PIPA: Wikipedia offline - Google censors its logo Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 18, 2012.
  5. Konrad Lischka: Controversial US Internet law: Wikipedia switches off - in protest, Der Spiegel , January 17, 2012.
  6. ^ Andreas Bange: The Protect IP Act (PIPA). In: From SOPA to the Copyright Alert System. A private law approach to protecting against copyright infringing streaming on the Internet. Richard Boorberg-Verlag, 2016. P. 79 ff. Google books .
  7. US Internet laws Sopa and Pipa: First senators buckle after web protest Der Spiegel , January 19, 2012.
  8. Ragni Zlotos: Protests against PIPA and SOPA show success heise.online, January 19, 2012.