Rep. Lofgren: Copyright bill is the ‘end of the Internet’ | Privacy Inc. – CNET News

…For Lofgren, at least, opposing an expansion of copyright law won’t be a novel task. After the Department of Homeland Security began seizing alleged piratical domains last fall, Lofgren wrote a letter to the department expressing concerns about the practice.

When an earlier version of Protect IP was advancing in the Senate last year, Lofgren said: “I’m particularly concerned that it could set a precedent for further control and censorship of the Internet by foreign governments, and risk the fragmentation of the global domain name system. Many prominent human rights activists and Internet engineers have voiced these concerns, and they deserve serious consideration.”

Lofgren has also earned the enmity of some copyright lobbyists for trying to expand Americans‘ fair use rights. In 2002, she introduced a bill–which was ultimately unsuccessful–that would amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow consumers to make backup copies of digital media such as DVDs that they had lawfully purchased…

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