It will be a great day for America when the DMCA is found to be unconstitutional.
It is also scary because violations of DCMA could be used as a ruse to shut down almost any site apparently. Very strange the way this one went down.
Yeah, it's not a pretty picture. It makes me shudder.
As you probably already thought, a few of these bloggers are going to sue the government for the constitutionality of this under free speech. They can’t do this. And even if they do - don’t you know if we are blessed with a conservative president in 2012, he will reverse a lot of this bull crap that the high holy man has brought into play. What I don’t undertand is how all these powerful people are allowing this to happen
They’re making their move....
Gunny G:
Facebook Deletes Gadsen Flag Sites, etc.
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/facebook-deletes-official-alex-jones-page-over-gadsden-flag/
Internet Censorship Beginning???
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-shut-down-wordpress-host-with-73000-blogs-100716/
Lieberman…Purging The Internet of Dissent
US Cyber Command...Perfect Citizen Or Big Brother?
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/us-cyber-command-%E2%80%A6-%E2%80%9Cperfect-citizen%E2%80%9D-or-big-brother/#more-21595
Glenn Beck Is Warning Us To Grab Everything We Can Off The Internet Because They Are About To Shut It Down!
Alex Jones — Gubmint Cyber Invasion!
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/alex-jones-on-rt-government-cyber-invasion/
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He tried to get the FEC to classify a parody web site as a PAC. When the FEC told Bush to go pound sand, Bush called a press conference.
At the press conference, he uttered, "There ought to be limits to freedom." What he meant, of course, is that he thought that there ought to be a way to control the freedom of speech.
It looks like Oh,Brother! is simply picking up where Duh!-bya left off.
I feel safer already.
What is likely to have happened here is that the FBI seized the server as evidence for a copyright infringement violation. These blogs were hosted on this server and are therefore no longer available.
When you host your blog on a free site, you get what you pay for. If you were thinking ahead, you have kept a backup on your own system and now can go find a reputable host for your blog.
Echelon at work.
Time to move to non-US hosting. Panama has lots of fiber capacity and most hosting facilities are in ex-US military facilities in the Canal Zone.
Today about copyright. Tomorrow about criticizing the “healthcare” bill. Day after tomorrow about criticizing the mad rush to marxism that we’re in.
The statement from the ISP sounds like the feds actually seized the physical server. Sounds more like suspicion it contained encrypted kiddie-porn or jihadi material than a DMCA action. Remember the DMCA link is only speculation. Screen-shots and downloads as proof, plus a cease-and-desist order would have sufficed for DMCA enforcement, though I suppose encrypted versions of copyrighted material might make them want to seize the physical server, too.
Now here’s an idea: drive the Feds mad by setting up sites containing encrypted files with completely innocuous public domain content, but file names suggestive of something nefarious, and generate lots of traffic to and from it.
I had read that these were not really blogs but limewire napster type sites that were allowing file sharing of copywritten materials like dvds and cds is that not the case?
Headline says blogs. Sites and blogs are different things.
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/gunny-g-dont-send-that-outraged-e-mail/
Semper Blogging!
Every American A Blogger!
This is no different than when the commies jammed radio frequencies back in the ‘70s.
Makes sense now why obama is awed by China.