• [and] ensure that they do not support illegal sites by advertising them or placing advertising onthem, or profit from infringement by selling key words associated with piracy or sellingmobile applications which facilitate infringement”.

    The proposals overlap many of the provisions written into the SOPA/PIPA that at least appear to be tabled, if not dead altogether. But while SOPA, as written, would require U.S. search engines to remove a link to an infringing site at the order of the U.S. Attorney General, the rightsholder proposals would go further.

    Peter Bradwell, a “campaigner” for the ORG, wondered how search engines might apply the practice. “Is this a suggestion that there should be action outside of a court order?” he wrote. “There is little on how search engines or the industry might classify illegal or legal sites in practice, let alone consideration of any possible market distortion or abuses. The

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