OTTAWA—A so-called “enabler provision” in the Conservative government’s copyright reform bill is drawing concern from major companies Google and Yahoo, industry sources say.

Sources close to the legislation say the companies are having internal discussions about the provision, which is intended to provide a legal remedy to catch copyright infringement “facilitators”—like BitTorrent trackers—that point to infringing content on the web.

Yahoo wouldn’t comment for this story, and Google is revealing little, but industry sources say Google and Yahoo are working on the provision behind the scenes.

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