The issue focused on the government's use of Digital Millennium Copyright Act exemptions to censor websites rather than to punish infringers. Among the sites that received these exemptions were social networks such as Twitter and YouTube, which were not covered by the act.


"We have to redo the equation," said Geert Wilders, the chairman of the Dutch Pirate Party. He announced that the new website monitoring bill would use the technology to take down websites that carried links to infringement information or advertisements.


Some politicians