House Joins The Senate In Moving Forward On Plan To Massively Increase Copyright Trolling

House Joins The Senate In Moving Forward On Plan To Massively Increase Copyright Trolling

4 years ago
Anonymous $4ckUSNo_FL

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190916/23430943006/house-joins-senate-moving-forward-plan-to-massively-increase-copyright-trolling.shtml

For quite some time now we've been talking about why the CASE Act, which sets up a special copyright "court" with lower barriers to entry for copyright holders, is such a bad idea. There are all sorts of problems with it, starting with the fact that we already have a massive copyright trolling problem, and the CASE Act is deliberately designed to make it worse. While supporters like to pretend that the CASE Act is the equivalent of a "small claims" court, it actually can lead to damages awards up to $30,000, which is way higher than a standard small claims court.

That said, as with so many copyright bills before it, Congress ignores all the problems associated with the CASE Act, because a bunch of vested interests pretend that there's some real problems solved by this law. So, once again, the bill has moved forward, this time with the House passing the bill out of the Judiciary Committee, meaning that it can go to a full vote on the floor. The end result here would be really dangerous for free speech online, but no one in Congress seems to care about it. Yet.