I decided to read S. 3804 to understand the technical implications therein, and I am not a lawyer, but here was my basic understanding:
If a website's primary purpose is copyright infringement or counterfeiting, and if your domain was registered domestically, then the Attorney General can take it away. If your domain name was registered non-domestically, the following will happen:
- Domestic ISPs will be required to DNS blacklist your domain name.
- Domestic payment processing and advertising companies will be forbidden from doing business with you.
Again, IANAL, so if someone else has a more insightful reading please let me know. I couldn't find a lay explanation anywhere.
Copyright infringement has nothing to do with counterfeiting. It seems to me that politicians are bundling them together in their newspeak, like in the infamous Anti-"Counterfeiting" Trade Agreement (ACTA https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Anti-Counterf...), to make anti-piracy more palatable to the public.
Yes, I know it sounds conspiracy-theorish, but remember they have been negotiating the ACTA with all the secrecy.
This would seem to violate due process. The US already has a legal system and the capability to issue injunctions against ISPs and hosting companies to take down sites that have been found, in court, to violate the law.
If a website's primary purpose is copyright infringement or counterfeiting, and if your domain was registered domestically, then the Attorney General can take it away. If your domain name was registered non-domestically, the following will happen:
- Domestic ISPs will be required to DNS blacklist your domain name.
- Domestic payment processing and advertising companies will be forbidden from doing business with you.
Again, IANAL, so if someone else has a more insightful reading please let me know. I couldn't find a lay explanation anywhere.