Technology: A bipartisan attempt to regulate the Internet?

http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/10/technology-a-bipartisan-attempt-to-regulate-the-internet.html

There's broad support for cutting off the financial lifeline for piracy hotbeds. But the bills' requirement that ISPs try to block their customers from reaching those sites has drawn opposition from an array of technology companies and networking engineers, who warn that it would encourage consumers to use alternate domain-name servers. That, in turn, would fragment the domain-name system and stymie efforts to make the Net less hospitable to malware.

Tech companies are also concerned about the power the Senate bill would grant to copyright holders to seek injunctions against sites they believe are dedicated to infringing activities -- a description that Viacom's attorneys could well have applied to YouTube before it started automatically checking uploads against a database of copyrighted works. But the private right of action in the House bill makes the Senate provision seem tame by comparison.