Posted on 11/19/2010 5:41:04 AM PST by markomalley
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is among the most draconian laws ever considered to combat digital piracy, and contains what some have called the “nuclear option,” which would essentially allow the Attorney General to turn suspected websites “off.”
COICA is the latest effort by Hollywood, the recording industry and the big media companies to stem the tidal wave of internet file sharing that has upended those industries and, they claim, cost them tens of billions of dollars over the last decade.
Just wow! And, Rockefeller’s “little bug” wants to silence FNC.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2629832/posts
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/18/sen-rockefeller-wishes-fcc-shut-fox-news/?test=latestnews
“There’s a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to Fox and to MSNBC, ‘Out. Off. End. Goodbye.’ “
“It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future,”
Can someone tell me why in the hell Tom Coburn’s name is on this bill?
I do understand it would be off the grid, but there is a problem with that: No new members (how many people Fido any more?). Secondly, land lines are passe’, and cell phones are spotty at best. Third, it requires cell phones connecting to the computer, and that is an extra step.
I’m not utterly unconvinced, but it seems as though staying Internet and going Peer to Peer is much more likely to succeed in keeping members and getting new ones.
The application itself can advertise for new members (Share FR with a likeminded friend!) sort of deal.
Yes but when its in another website cant that website “own” their own format ???
This bill is horrible!! Make no mistake about it but....it is also just getting approved by a committee. That is not the same thing as being a law. Now that a committee drafted the bill, and each pig got their chance to add some pork to it, it can now be presented for a vote if neither side tries to stall the vote or toss it. Once it is up for a vote, if it passes, then it has to move over to the House of Representatives. They in turn will send it to committee, redraft it with their own pork, send it for a vote.
If is passes the House, it has still has to go to another committee that will try to reconcile the House’s pork and the Senate’s pork and make some bacon. If that works, then it will go to the oval office for signature. If it makes it that far though, it is likely to pass, since the law is in effect giving the administrative branch powers outside the checks and balances system our government is founded on.
It would then be contested in courts, which probably wouldn’t uphold it as the judicial branch tends to be very protective of its own place in the check and balances and this bill, in particular, has written them out of the process completely.
I don't think so. They could own any commentaries on it however.
Disclaimer: I'm not an IP lawyer, just a lay person with some experience in the area.
By 2012, we won't recognize this country anymore. PRAY!
Yes, and the courts will overturn McCain-Freingold...
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This must be stopped. It will definitely be used by leftists to try to shut down FreeRepublic.
“We need to conceptualize a true peer to peer network.”
Or a series of mirrored servers around the world using some kind of redundant “cloud” setup, somewhat like Amazon’s EC2 or Rackspace Cloud but hosted outside the US, for the most part.
There is a Canadian website inspired by FR called Free Dominion. They moved their servers to Panama, which has strict privacy laws, to escape free speech censorship.
The fact that they are going to RAM THIS DOWN OUR THROATS, like Healthcare, tells me that it will be very important to be one step ahead, or die.
By that, I mean F.R. and all posters.
Starting immediately, I will no longer post pictures, unless I am absolutely sure they are public domain.(such as pictures from CHEEZEBURGER.COM, or my own, or another Freepers creation)
I will not paste any text from a source article, or any other reference, without providing a SOURCE NAME and LINK.
I will help guide others who paste or post things that could endanger F.R.
I hope by setting an example, others will follow.
WHAT WILL YOU DO to save FREE REPUBLIC?
Great post, Laz.
Certainly did not defend the bill. Only commenting why it came out of committee.
Do nothing would be the best possible course of action.
So, we must be careful, and take the time to learn which sources are going to cause a copyright problem.
First step in keeping FR from being shutdown is this:
Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints
EVERYONE should make this a link in their browser FAVORITES so they have quick access and can check for the rules for their 'source' article.
Yes, it's a pain in the butt. But so is not having F.R.
You heard correctly.
Excellent piece, mojitojoe. America is far past the dinner roll - by about 21 months.
I will immediately design a Free Republic Red Alert application.
It is eventually to grow into a full distributed-computing peer-to-peer network forum.
One version of the application will be for Jim Robinson. It will allow him to broadcast the Red Alert and Wait For Further News messages.
Our applications will only receive this message, in a peer-to-peer fashion.
If a need for this message to be sent is ever realized, the next phase is to deploy out to all Freepers the version I will subsequently work on, that will do Free Republic OUTRIGHT in a peer-to-peer fashion.
Jim, are you interested in this? I will proceed immediately in lieu of a message to you, but backup planning is essential. They intend to play very dark, the liberals do.
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