Hostile Signals: How Rightsholders Are Reviving the Piracy-Terrorism Nexus to Push for U.S. Site-Blocking Legislation
Executive Overview For nearly three decades, rightsholders, industry associations, and anti-piracy advocacy groups have attempted to forge a rhetorical and operational link between digital copyright infringement and transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, and terrorism. What began in the late 1990s as an effort by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) to curb cross-border…
