This should be placed on whitehouse.gov website.
Posted on 11/27/2010 7:15:22 AM PST by GreaterSwiss
The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websites that facilitate copyright infringement.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized dozens of domain names over the past few days, according to TorrentFreak.
ICE appears to be targeting sites that help Internet users download copyrighted music, as well as sites that sell bootleg goods, such as fake designer handbags.
The sites are replaced with a note from the government: "This domain named has been seized by ICE, Homeland Security Investigations."
For instance, 2009jersey.com, 51607.com, and amoyhy.com have each been seized.
One of the site owners told TorrentFreak that his site was shut down without any notice or warning.
The effort come as Congress considers the Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). Critics, including Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) say it is too heavy-handed. He has vowed to put a formal hold on the bill.
And yet WikiLeaks.com is still registered... in San Francisco of all places.
Wikileaaks serves the purposes of the regime they will eventually crack down on it and use it as a pretext. The regime is all about pretext to hide their real motivation which is to shut down opposing opinions and opposition.
Due process is in the 14th amendment but that is ok because you know there is a constitutional issue. I give you an A-. This is the greatest unconstitutional act I have ever seen in any Government agency. This is NOT Homeland Security!! This is GESTAPO driven by campaign contributions. You can’t make up a reason “Home Land Security”would be involved as Judge and Jury on this issue. We have Courts for this stuff. This follows on the heals of unreasonable search of your crotch area by another bunch of goons at HLS— the TSA. You will not believe the wrath of the Supreme court on this crap. You will see a merging of conservatives and liberals on the Court to wipe put this dark page from our history. DUE PROCESS DAMMIT!
Greed and lust for power are often their intentions...
“Since the great majority of copyrights are owned by the upper oligarchy it is only a matter of time before they buy out any remaining copyrights down the food chain and pass laws to make copyrights property in perpetuity to heirs and descendants.”
I don’t know and I don’t care who owns most copyrights, the fact is they ain’t got no right to a life time + 70 years monopoly. The propose of congress having the power to allow copyrights for a LIMITED peroid of time is to promote the progress of since and technology.
Not to stifle it by either securing to a few permanent rights to milk their creation not only throughout their own life but their children’s and probably grand-children’s life as well..
There has to be some incentive for theses folks and their children to get back to work inventing, and creating MORE things. Do they wish to corrupt and stifle their children’s creative need?
I’m not a fan of taxing inheritance but technology is not property, property is is physical objects. Property has mass. and while property can be reproduced, its reproduction can be sold and once sold it is no longer your property.
The securing to a person a monopoly right to the reproduction and sale of any property is an unnatural phenomenon that must be as limited in it’s duration as it is necessary to incentive the creation of new Technology.
In my mind the life time of the inverter or 30 years is the absolute limit! If you can’t make a good profit off your creation in that time you never will.
I am also open to the possibility of doing it on a dollar value basis, you got exclusive right until you get x amount of dollars in sales.
A new problem I'm starting to see with groups like itunes is they hype the liberal - like podcasts. I don't think Apple or itunes 'gets' the fact that half the people in the country (possible customers for them) are conservatives... It's sad.
AND BOLD!!
This should be placed on whitehouse.gov website.
You're right! I might watch 3 hours a week - which isn't enough to justify having cable... You're also right about Steyn - he's great. Offer a prayer for him - some medical problem has made him quit writing for a while. I try to remember him when I pray... he's a good man.
Youbetcha! Netmilsdad rocks for setting up a huge tower under the tv.
(My girls take Latin and Creative Writing through a Dimdim class as well. On the plasma!)
We will never go back to 60.00 a month for garbage.
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/
Have a look at this. It’s shocking what people outside the U.S. are saying about this - and about Americans. Many are wondering when or if the American people will take their country back.
More Torrent sites seized by Our Dark Overlord:
filespump.com
movies-links.tv
planetmoviez.com
thepiratecity.org
tvshack.net
zml.com
cheers
Let’s see if they shut down shiaweb.org...
From the text of the 5th Amendment:
:...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;...”
The 14th amendment takes a couple of existing clauses, puts them together and applies them to states. Up until the time it was added it had been ruled that the Bill of Rights didn’t apply to states, and this amendment ensured that equal protection and due process would apply.
The 5th amendment has always been a limitation on the Federal government, and DHS is purely Federal.
Nachumlist is still up.... so far
The list, ping
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FR is still up.... so far (and Nachumlist)
The list, ping
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They might as well shut down Youtube as that has probably as much or more copyrighted content as anything.
Seriously the Federal copyright laws are insane, life +70 years.
Ping!
That is why we need to rid the Communist out of the Government!!!
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