Backing down from bullish support of efforts to block access to rogue sites peddling stolen movies and music, two industry leaders at the State of the Net conference Tuesday urged Congress to continue work on copyright legislation.
Paul Brigner, senior vice president and chief technology policy officer with the Motion Picture Association of America, began the session with a conciliatory note, acknowledging that so-called DNS blocking is "off the table" in the debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and PROTECT IP Act in the Senate.
Continue ReadingIn fact, Brigner even stressed the movie studios' lobby has a "commitment to technologies" that undergird the structure of the Internet ? though he did stress any bill to emerge from Congress must have teeth that would actually disrupt foreign rogue websites.
"Despite all of my best efforts, the past year has been dominated by really a bitter war between Silicon Valley and the content industry," Brigner said. "And it?s a shame, because a lot of it has been fueled, I think, by misinformation and exaggeration about what the MPAA and others were trying to accomplish with this legislation."
"We need more than just following the money, and addressing the search results," he later added. "There needs to be some indication that when you try to go to these rogue sites, you shouldn't be there."
A similar tone was sounded by Steve Tepp, chief intellectual property counsel with the Global Intellectual Property Center, an arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which also supports the online piracy legislation.
Tepp noted that industry is now "at a place where a provision that has generated the most consternation, the most uproar" has been removed from SOPA and PIPA. "And what we're left with is a very narrow, carefully tailored, narrowly targeted bill that addresses the worst of the worst online thieves, whether it's the Senate or the House bill."
Tepp said he expected further tweaks as the House and Senate continue their respective processes. But, he said with respect to the challenges his industry faces in combating IP infringement, "In order to slay this dragon, we need more than a fly swatter."
This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 11:03 a.m. on January 17, 2012.
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