Senate panel approves website shut-down bill

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I agree. This bill would be a positive development toward limiting copyright infringement.
 
Anyone who is making serious money off of copyright infringement will just move to a more lenient country.
 
It looks like they are already doing this under existing laws.

NY Times:
“ICE office of Homeland Security Investigations executed court-ordered seizure warrants against a number of domain names,” said Cori W. Bassett, a spokeswoman for ICE, in a statement. “As this is an ongoing investigation, there are no additional details available at this time.”
Among the domains seized were torrent-finder.com and those of three sites that specialized in music: onsmash.com, rapgodfathers.com and dajaz1.com. TorrentFreak, a news blog about BitTorrent — a file-sharing system that has tended to elude the authorities because it is decentralized — said that at least 70 other addresses had been seized, most belonging to sites related to counterfeit clothing, DVDs and other goods.
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Critics have said the law is too broad, and could affect sites that have nothing to do with file-sharing; the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties group, has called it “an Internet censorship bill.” Waleed A. GadElKareem, who operated Torrent Finder from Egypt, said his site was shut down on Thursday without any notice.
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“My Web site does not even host any torrents or direct-link to them,” Mr. GadElKareem wrote in an e-mail, adding that he only links to other sites. “I am sure something is wrong!”
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Why the Dept of Homeland Security is in on this I don’t know.
I would like to know if there is any provision for people whose sites have been wrongly seized?
 
First, billions of dollars are being lost.

Second, it’s obvious why Homeland Security is involved. Bad guys could hide bad stuff on a so-called file-sharing site. And of course, people are yelling foul about this.

The new name for stealing books, images and movies is file sharing.

Google has been sued by visual artists:

businessweek.com/news/2010-04-07/visual-artists-file-class-action-suit-against-google-update1-.html

Viacom sued youtube, which is owned by google, and lost, but has filed an appeal.

Even if pirates set up in the hills of Ubombistan, it will not help them.

Peace,
Ed
 
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