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.
Love ya, bro, but you aren't seeing the picture.
They would have Justice with the vans and the guys with guns all deployed outside Jims house, and the server location. Then an agent provocateur would be sent to post anything copyrighted on FR.
Then, when the info was visible, the Go Sign would be sent.
Man, that is the longest, and I think the most boring, version of that story I have ever read. (boring mostly because I already knew the punchline)
Good job of writing, though.
Guilty until proven innocent...... This is a popular left wing tactic. Make legal fees so expensive, and entity cannot survive even though they're innocent. This is how the ACLU wins all it's cases. It has nothing to do with law or Constitutionality. (This is also how the left wrapped up the trial lawyer vote. The left brings them work.)
I went to see the bill. I got:
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Well, perhaps they will need to pass the bill, so that I can see what’s in it.
And just like McDonald’s exempt VampireCare, guess who will be exempt from this thing, and “pass around” all the “fair use” information they want.
Well, I'm glad to hear that, son!
Only commenting why it came out of committee.
I don't understand how that follows from your post. I was thinking it was because lobbyists got to both parties.
Wasn’t Orrin Hatch the co-sponsor of the bill along with Leahy who put this forward?
Our congress cant find the time and will to cut spending and save some $$ for the folks who are getting ripped off of their retirement thru Social Security, but they can find time, and bipartisan support, for special deals and protectionism and a mass takeover of the internet, for the Media industries.
Socialism ain’t just for the poor!
Something like that. Holder gave the Black Panthers a pass and then sued Arizona. Do you think he would rather shut down FR or a commie website?
(may I try to translate?)
"We will drown you in legal costs after we shut down your site and eliminate your income, by having Eric Holder issue a simple memo. If you can come up with the money to file an appeal, then Pontius Pilate Eric Holder can wash his hands and throw the Christians website to the lions Liberal/Obama Appointed Judges so they can feast on the scraps.
Expect that to change.
We just have to be proactive, and smarter than they are.
Posters just might have to deal with providing links only, and rephrasing/summary descriptions of what is at a link.
Of course, if they won't let us even copy the HEADLINE, that would be a problem.
I'm going to get out my old TELEGRAPH KEY and start practicing my MORSE CODE.
“Meeting in the streets” should of happened, long before now! Come on, already!
Not good. Eric Holder is a criminal AG, and he’s not the first.
Janet Reno.
And JFK had his brother in the AG office, willing to do whatever he wanted. The Dems have always controlled the justice system when they hold the White House. Republicans are too stupid.
So, the committee is “unanimous.” The cowardly Republicans are worried about losing what little money they get from Hollywood?
The problem is that all .com and .net names are under US jurisdiction. They could keep their hosting, but nobody would be able to get to them under "blahblah.com" because the link from blahblah.com to their IP addresses will be severed.
The solution is to get addresses under a two-letter country code domain of a country that hasn't bowed down to the copyright cartel.
All countries will.
Peer 2 Peer.
Like the law concerning the Black Panthers standing outside a poll booth?
The issue isn’t left/right or communist/socialist. It’s simply big businesses wanting to protect their profits at our expense, using their bought congresscritters to get what they want.
They will own our culture. They’ve been successfully working at it for decades.
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