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Authors Guild Wants Web Companies To Police Piracy

The Authors Guild is asking Congress to require Internet companies to filter pirated e-books, Ars Technica writes. The authors' organization wants lawmakers to revise the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which currently provides that companies aren't liable for infringement by users, provided that pirated material is removed upon request of the content owner. “Technology that can identify and filter pirated material is now commonplace,” the Guild writes. “It only makes sense, then, that ISPs should bear the burden of limiting piracy on their sites, especially when they are profiting from the piracy and have the technology to conduct automates searches and takedowns.”

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