Congress Urges Ad Networks To Keep Ads Off On-Line Pirating Sites

Ad networks should do more to keep advertising off piracy sites, the House International Anti-Piracy Caucus said in a letter to industry organizations this week. Though ad networks have developed best practices to prevent sites promoting piracy from gaining financially by posting their ads on those sites, “much more remains to be done to operationalize the commitments made and to make them effective in preventing the appearance of legitimate ads on pirate sites, rather than simply responding once they are placed,” said the letter from the caucus.