Rep. Darrell Issa introduced the American Copyright Protection Act, a site blocking bill that expands beyond earlier drafts to explicitly cover ISPs, DNS resolvers, and VPN providers. Copyright holders can petition courts to declare websites as foreign piracy sites and obtain blocking orders, with VPN providers now required to prevent U.S. users from accessing them, though implementation details are left to providers.
TelevisaUnivision obtained a federal court order in Florida targeting pirate IPTV services, securing a $32.7M default judgment against operators of Thunder TV, Sunset TV, and Tele Latino. The proposed permanent injunction is unusually broad, allowing TU to add new defendants and domains without court approval, and covers nearly 600 domains and 121 intermediaries including major companies like GoDaddy, Cloudflare, and GitHub.
Unsealed court documents in a copyright infringement lawsuit reveal that OpenAI executives acknowledged training AI models on illegally obtained copyrighted books and anticipated that AI-generated content would displace human authors. Internal communications show company officials knowingly proceeded despite concerns from writers, with one executive stating their goal was to create machines that would supplant human authors. Microsoft was also aware of OpenAI's use of pirated content sources and later deleted those files.
A lawyer and author who pioneered AI copyright lawsuits argues that sci-fi catastrophe scenarios distract from realistic AI policy. While proposing a global AI ban sounds appealing, it faces practical obstacles: existing laws already address malicious software but lack enforcement, open-weight models pose threats regardless of research halts, and trillions in economic investment make a coordinated global ban politically unfeasible.