Writing on the Volokh Conspiracy blog on July 4 David Post – author of In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace – notes that over 90 Law and IP professors have signed a letter opposing the proposed Protect IP Act. He says:
The bill, which will allow the government to obtain injunctions against domain names hosting allegedly copyright-infringing or trademark-infringing material, and to have those domain names deleted from the Internet’s databases, represents a serious assault on the fundamental principles that have built the Net — the design principles at the heart of its technical infrastructure, and the free speech principles it has done so much to foster and cultivate around the globe, all at the behest of your friends in the recording and motion picture industries.
The full text of the letter is below