在本周发给众议院司法委员会的一封信中，美国最大的作家协会之一作家协会（Authors Guild）要求国会强制互联网服务提供商先发制人地过滤电子书等盗版材料。

这封由执行董事玛丽·拉森伯格（Mary Rasenberger）签署的信认为，数字千年版权法（Digital Millennium Copyright Act）过于偏袒大公司，而不是个人作者，作者协会认为，因为作家们没有办法监控侵权材料并将其标记下来。但互联网服务提供商，它建议，这样做。信中写道：

ISPs, on the other hand, do have the ability to monitor piracy. Technology that can identify and filter pirated material is now commonplace. It only makes sense, then, that ISPs should bear the burden of limiting piracy on their sites, especially when they are profiting from the piracy and have the technology to conduct automates searches and takedowns. Placing the burden of identifying pirated content on the individual author, who has no ability to have any real impact on piracy, as the current regime does, makes no sense at all. It is technology that has enabled the pirate marketplace to flourish, and it is technology alone that has the capacity to keep it in check.

What we are asking is simple: that the law be clarified so that the safe harbors work as Congress intended—to protect innocent ISPs from liability for user infringement, but only to the extent they cooperate with copyright owners to remove infringing content and keep pirates off their sites.

长期以来，作家协会一直与谷歌（Google）等公司对簿公堂，并就图书扫描一案对谷歌提起诉讼。本周，该协会还呼吁司法部调查亚马逊的图书销售行为。