Taking a stand: tackling online infringement

Online intellectual property infringement is generally accepted to be getting worse. This is reflected in the flurry of activity throughout 2011 and early in 2012: legislation was mooted (the Stop Online Piracy Act), and in some cases passed (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), to help tackle it, and websites such as Megaupload were closed, its domains seized and its owner Kim Dotcom arrested in a bid to stop it.