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Recommend NYT Discusses the Proposed PROTECT IP Act, Pits IP Owners Against Google (Email)

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Last week, the NYT published an article on the proposed “PROTECT IP Act,” the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011.

The article frames the issue as pitting those in favor of a means to better enforce IP rights on the Internet against those in favor of free Internet. Or to put faces on those interest groups, the Motion Picture Association of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce versus the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Google. That’s how many have couched the debate.

I’m all for a free Internet, believe me. But I’m also (obviously) all for IP rights. And I can say that IP owners are getting killed by overseas infringers — particularly counterfeiters. The article characterizes enforcement efforts through our current system as playing the arcade game of “Whac-a-Mole,” and that’s an apt comparison.


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