WASHINGTON Rep. Ed Markey accused the entertainment industry of pulling a bait and switch as Hollywood attempts to paint the “network neutrality” doctrine as a safe harbor for copyright pirates.
Markey, D-Mass., one of the primary authors of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, took issue with the entertainment industry’s arguments that Internet nondiscrimination legislation will aid bootleggers.
“It’s 100 percent wrong,” he told witnesses Tuesday during a hearing examining the bill. “It’s a red herring. We ought to put an aquarium out here there are so many red herrings floating around.”
Markey said the legislation would ensure that the big network companies can’t take advantage of content providers of which the cable and phone companies don’t already own a piece.
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