U.S. Site Blocking Bill Adds VPNs to the List of Blocking Intermediaries

VPN providers with over 100,000 American users could be ordered to block pirate sites under the bill Rep. Darrell Issa introduced last week. The full text shows that VPNs were added after last year's discussion draft, which only mentioned ISPs and DNS resolvers. How a VPN should block access "from the United States" remains an open question, as the technical implementation is not defined.