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As internet giants Google, Wikipedia, Tumblr and others launch a protest today against anti-piracy legislation in Washington that they say could lead to internet censorship, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, Senator Chuck Schumer, said he hopes the bill can be tweaked to allow government officials and victims of intellectual-property theft to go “after the perpetrators without going after the medium.”
Schumer made his comments to the Journal News during an editorial-board meeting that was, appropriately enough, streamed online.
Schumer said the legislation is dividing two industries that are prominent in New York: content providers, like television and movie studios and even book publishers, and internet companies that have helped boost New York’s economy and are crucial to the city’s aspiration to rival Silicon Valley one day as a tech capital.
“The content side correctly points out that piracy is hurting them badly,” Schumer said.
The piracy the legislation is looking to curb is conducted “mainly by foreigners” he said, blaming the problem on Chinese and Bulgarian pirates, among others.
They “take these copyright materials and just steal them,” Schumer said.
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