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Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces

derekmead writes: The most controversial parts of SOPA, an anti-piracy bill defeated in 2012 after a massive public outcry, may end up becoming de facto law after all, depending on the outcome in an obscure case that is working its way through the legal system without anyone noticing.

Next week, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.

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  1. Democrats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The democrats passed the DMCA. They hate poor people being entertained. They want the poor to decide between food and happiness. I don;t know why they hate the poor.

    They also want the poor and black to be exterminated. We now have more black babies being aborted than being born. This is because of liberal and democrats hate and want to kill black children while tricking them into voting for them.