<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act<br />|   from the clean-up-your-act  dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Monday July 04, @20:36 (Government)<br />|    <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Freddybear  writes "Along with 90 (and still counting) other Internet law<br />and IP law  professors, David Post of the Volokh Conspiracy law blog has<br />[0]drafted and  signed a letter in opposition to Senator Leahy's 'PROTECT<br />IP Act.' Quoting:  'The Act would allow the government to break the<br />Internet addressing system.  It requires Internet service providers, and<br />operators of Internet name  servers, to refuse to recognize Internet<br />domains that a court considers  "dedicated to infringing activities." But<br />rather than wait until a Web site  is actually judged infringing before<br />imposing the equivalent of an Internet  death penalty, the Act would allow<br />courts to order any Internet service  provider to stop recognizing the<br />site even on a temporary restraining order  or preliminary injunction<br />issued the same day the complaint is filed. Courts  could issue such an<br />order even if the owner of that domain name was never  given notice that a<br />case against it had been filed at all.'"<br /><br />Discuss  this story at:<br /> <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href="http://volokh.com/2011/07/04/and-speaking-of-the-inalienable-right-to-the-pursuit-of-happiness/">http://volokh.com/2011/07/04/and-speaking-of-the-inalienable-right-to-the-pursuit-of-happiness/</a></p>