PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act

bs0d3 writes "The U.S. House has drafted their version of Protect IP today. They have renamed the bill to 'the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act' or the E-PARASITE Act. The new house version of Protect IP is far worse than the Senate bill s.968 and it massively expands the sites that will be covered by the law. While the Senate bill limited its focus to sites that were 'dedicated to infringing activities,' the house bill targets 'foreign infringing sites' and 'has only limited purpose or use other than infringement.' They're also including an 'inducement' claim, any foreign site declared by the Attorney General to be 'inducing' infringement, can now be censored by the US. With no adversarial hearing. The bill can be read here."

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[jd]

Not only that, the US has been demanding the payback of loans made during the wars (loans with interest, I might add) that would never have been required if the US hadn't initially sided with Germany and confiscated Allied property in the US. Hell, had the confiscations not happened, US involvement might never have been needed - Europe might have been able to afford an armed forces capable of resisting the Germans.