Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web
Why does this automatic enforcement of law only ever cut one way?<p>If we&#x27;re mandating that technology should enforce laws automatically, how about anti-monopoly-power technology? All mergers and acquisitions of companies above some size are automatically blocked, and they have to make a compelling case in a court of law to have the block lifted. It has to be renewed every three years, or the company is automatically broken up again.<p>Oh, and a simple similarity search versus the entire web, to mark patents as invalid due to prior art or obviousness.<p>DRM could be presumed to infringe upon fair use and other legal rights of ownership, and be automatically declared illegal (no, I don&#x27;t mean that breaking it would become legal, though it would. I mean the DRM itself would be illegal, and the manufacturer would be by law forced to remove it), unless the manufacturer convincingly argues it is necessary (and re-argues it every three years).<p>And naturally, use of copyrighted material would be presumed fair-use, and just like wrongful takedowns don&#x27;t get punished currently, if some material were proven to be infringing in a very non-automatic legal proceeding, the only consequence would be taking the material down - no other fines or punishment of any kind.