The proposed legislation would allow the Department of Justice and content owners to seek court orders against any site accused of "enabling or facilitating" piracy.

The US government and rights holders would have the right to seek court orders against any site accused of "enabling or facilitating" piracy.

Plain thievery," Murdoch wrote in a series of tweets, which also accused Google of facilitating piracy.

Then along came the video recorder, and the movie industry fought it tooth and nail because it was the handmaiden of the devil - on account of facilitating "piracy".

Despite offers from the bnetd developers to integrate Blizzard's CD key checking system into bnetd, Blizzard claims that the public availability of any such software package facilitates piracy, and moved to have the bnetd project shut down under provisions of the DMCA.

To the Editor: "Growing Threat of Cyberthieves in the Intellectual Marketplace" (Arts pages, Feb. 11) highlights how digital technologies facilitate blatant piracy.

This declaration supported the claims by free-software advocates and politicians who said that the protection of DRM initially envisioned would benefit makers of DRM systems by enabling them to prosecute competitors as facilitating piracy.

The targets are various high-traffic web sites that facilitate piracy using services like BitTorrent, eDonkey, and USENET.

On the pretext of defending the consumer, indeed even small firms, we risk putting the European producers in difficulty and in certain cases facilitating copying and possible piracy, particularly in south east Asia, even if, so far, people have had understandable reservations about mentioning this real danger in geographical terms.

Skeptics argue that Mr. Robertson has not built a viable business model and that any free download policy can facilitate piracy.