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Any site accused of "enabling or facilitating piracy" could be shut down.
In the United States, meanwhile, Internet companies like Google are campaigning against congressional proposals that could require them to block links to Web sites accused of facilitating piracy.
The United States Senate is considering an intellectual property bill that would allow the government or private businesses to take action against a potentially large array of Web sites for "facilitating" piracy, an excessively broad definition.
A turnaround is under way at last.The internet has always been the enemy of music executives, facilitating piracy, denting CD sales and encouraging people to download single songs instead of buying them by the dozen.
The good news for the Recording Industry Association of America RIAAA), which had applied for the injunction on the ground that Napster was facilitating piracy, was that the appeal court rejected most of the arguments that Napster offered in its defence.
Amazon and eBay also proactively remove devices facilitating piracy from their websites, the FCC acknowledged in its letter.
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It facilitates piracy, dents CD sales and encourages people to download single songs instead of buying them by the dozen.
But the head of internet users' not-for-profit organisation Internet Australia, which includes ISPs among its members, has warned that the cases will drive further traffic to sites the entertainment companies say facilitate piracy.
Another provision would allow the attorney general to sue foreign sites that "facilitate" piracy, and to demand that domestic search engines stop linking to them and that Internet service providers redirect traffic.
HP executives admit that someone could use e-speak to facilitate piracy on the Internet.
Record companies had a problem with this, of course, for the same reason they complain about everything: it facilitated piracy, it denied them revenue, etc.
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