Thread: Authors Guild takes on Piracy/Copyright Law and eBook Royalties
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Old 07-11-2015, 08:36 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Fat Abe View Post
Doubtful that this form of filtering could be achieved without ISP's snooping on all incoming data streams of their customers. Also, remember that once the data is encrypted with https, the ISP's would have to get involved in code cracking. In a word, this whole idea is overreaching. I believe that authors have a right to copyright protection, but they should pay for their own sites and use robots to index the rest of the internet. Why should the ISP have to make such an investment?
It's also unworkable:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...own-provision/

And oh yeah, it's just SOPA under another name:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...staydown.shtml
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