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Posted on 04/14/2011 10:21:35 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
UPDATE: Lots of coverage of our efforts this week. THE HILL: Groups slam online piracy efforts; TECHDIRT: People Across Political Spectrum Come Out Against COICA Censorship Bill; CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY: Online piracy bipartisan domain; POLITICO: Groups blast Leahy piracy bill.
ORIGINAL: Brian McCarthy ran a website, channelsurfing.net, that linked to various sites where you could watch online streams of TV shows and sports networks. A couple months ago, the government seized his domain name and on Friday they arrested him and charged him with criminal copyright infringement -- punishable by five years in prison.
We just obtained a copy of the complaint (below) that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made against him -- and they don't even allege that he made a copy of anything! Just that he ran what they call a "linking website" which linked to various sites with copyrighted material. Under that sort of thinking, everyone who's sent around a link to a copyrighted YouTube video is a criminal.
This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE -- a steamship-era department that's proving once again that it doesn't understand the Internet. We need to push back -- and fast -- before they try to lock up more Americans.
PETITION TO JANET NAPOLITANO, DIRECTOR OF HOMELAND SECURITY, AND JOHN MORTON, DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT: There's nothing wrong or illegal about posting a link to a website. This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE: You need to drop the charges against Brian McCarthy right away.
As long as they are not liberals, yes they will be arrested. If they are liberals they will not be arrested because we just don’t understand their needs properly.
Absolutely out of control agencies. Copyrights are NEITHER ONE OF THEIR JURISDICTION. Not to mention this “criminal” wasn’t even hosting any copyrighted material himself.
My spying for the Homeland Security shows that Limitless and Source Code are pretty darn good! Rio and Hop are set to be researched this weekend.
I used to post links on comments to back up my assertions, now, recently FB won’t let me paste a link, kind of like the way youtube is set up. They will let you paste on your wall but on the comments, nope.
I thought it was Al Gore???
Hmmm homeland security has nothing else to do, yeah, all those illegals have been stopped may as well go after bloggers - they sure as hell are bigger criminals than say tax evaders and the liar/fraud/communist/illegal in chief.
“Ja Wohl! I’m glad that Fatherland Security is protecting us from terrorists like this and that 6 year old in the airport.”
Well, all it takes is one 6-year old girl whipping out a .357 Magnum and screaming, “THIS PLANE IS GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!” /s;)
I must have missed it when web-site linkers blew up buildings and killed 3000 people.
I imagine the sentence for Drudge will be Death Row.
TownHall? American Spectator? Weekly Standard?
Hardly..
You realize of course, that you just asked the government, the United States Federal Government, the government of, by, and for Obama, to act civilly and with intellect.
What are you going to wish for next - a pony? :/
Hmmm. I was referring to posting on my wall, but I’ll have to check out your observation about “comments” links.
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http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1158611596104.shtm
I believe I see linked content to their OWN website!
Yeah let me know if it happens to you. I’m really annoyed by this.
If you don’t want your content linked to, don’t post it on the web! Duh!
That is outrageous! But what else is new with these goons
in the White House!
(and yeah, I mean you, fake president in case you’re spying!!!)
Indeed!
Yep. Cuz it ain't so.
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