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27/01/2011 -
Websites that traffic pirated music, movies and games are rampant online, no matter how vigorously watchdog groups and the government try to shut them down.MasterCard got involved in the fight recently, announcing that it will stop processing credit card payments from pirate sites, reports CNET News.
The company supported the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, a law that would have allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down pirate site domains on American-based websites and require third parties such as payment processors, online ad network providers and internet servers to take action against the pirate sites as well.
The bill never became law, says the news source, but the Senate will try again to pass the controversial antipiracy legislation, with MasterCard's full backing.
CNET says that the Motion Picture Association of America, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Recording Industry Association of America are among the bill's supporters. Opponents include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Distributed Computing Industry Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union, who believe the bill is censorship.
Many pirating sites would still be accessible from servers overseas, but the proposed U.S. legislation and subsequent actions show that pirated media is not tolerated by the American government.
