Project Goliath was first mentioned in an email titled "Site Blocking / ISP Measures - INPUT REQUESTED" — from Fabrizio to Rebecca Prentice (Paramount), Leah Weil (Sony), Maren Christensen (NBC Universal), John Rogovin (Warner Bros.), Gary Roberts (Fox), and Alan Braverman (Disney): "My goal is to use our February meeting to present and discuss a detailed US Goliath strategy."
the project was initiated by MPAA and its six studios as their most powerful and politically relevant adversary in the fight against online piracy. The email lays out a series of legally and technically new tools, including new measures that would block infringing websites from reaching customers of many major ISPs.
the project was a plan made to attack privacy after the SOPA efforts failed.
"We start from the premise that site blocking is a means to an end," said MPAA general counsel Steven Fabrizio.
