Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name

October 2, 2026 · 6:59 pm 1 sources

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• Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name
  This article was originally published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (CC BY). · October 2, 2026 18:59
  There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “ DEFEND IP Act .” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize…