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As our economy continues to recover, we really must take every action that we can to create jobs and meaningfully address intellectual property theft.

I really want to start off by thanking you for holding this hearing today and for officially opening this investigation into rogue websites here in the House.

the word 'knock-off' doesn't really conjure up anything other than trying to steal something that is someone else's intellectual property.

your autocomplete feature continues to suggest that people visit websites with pirated content, that Google enables and facilitates theft.

I think this hearing was incredibly helpful in starting to flesh out some of the tough issues that we need to grapple with.

Shouldn't we be looking at it the other way, to come up with the technological ways that we can make it more difficult for others to access this, as Mr. Castro points out is eminently doable?

I would respectfully suggest that in addition to the reasons that you list already, sexual content, graphic violence, hateful or abusive content, and other objection, that it might be helpful for those of us who are concerned about these…

If there is a way that it can be done without the collateral damage that you fear, obviously, that should be something we consider.

Mr. Deutch, you can agree that there is no reason for us to argue about the relative impact, that this is a vitally important issue we ought to be tackling?

I want to go back--Mr. Sohn, you point out in your written testimony that in 2007, 2008, which is generations ago in terms of what we are combating, what we are dealing with now...

I hope that you can understand my concern here.

I have been very open about my admiration for the way that your office took the absolute worst of the worst of these websites hosting illegal content.

It is possible to actually... modify autocomplete so that it doesn't show the list of search terms that might actually be a popular search term.

In a traditional shopping center, there would be no place for any store that opens that sells illegal goods.

I believe that we have gone slightly astray here.

More agencies, I think, ought to take a look at their existing authorities and find new ways to use those clear and established powers to combat and recognize problems.