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.