Slashdot Mirror
New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Piracy
GovTechGuy writes "Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee unveiled new legislation to combat online piracy on Monday that gives the Department of Justice more power to shut down websites trafficking in pirated movies, films or counterfeit goods. The new bill would give the government the authority to shut down the sites with a court order; the site owner would have to petition the court to have it lifted. The judge would have final say over whether a site should be shut down or not. Business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce hailed the legislation as a huge step forward."
shut down websites trafficking in ... counterfeit goods
Bye Bye EBAY, and good riddance
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Ever notice the same people who call Net Neutrality a government takeover of the internet are usually pretty quiet whenever somebody in Congress proposes a law that'd allow them to block or shut websites down?
My postings are informational and does not constitute legal advice. Act on it at your risk.
What's wrong with getting a court order?
Every time we drop court orders out of the mix, we wind up with abusive crap (see FBI and National Security Letters).
Just suck it up, deal with the paper work, and live in a nation governed by three equal branches of government that each work to ensure the other branches are not overstepping their bounds.
-Rrick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
Leahy said in a statement. "Protecting intellectual property is not uniquely a Democratic or Republican priority -- it is a bipartisan priority."
In other words, if you believe in Copyright reform, you have no choices at the polls.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce hailed the legislation as a huge step forward.
Yeah, a step forward for keeping their business models from dying off, thus preventing them from having to actually work to come up with new ones.
Meanwhile, this COULD be used to stamp out any site the US Government or the MAFIAA dislike. WikiLeaks? "Piracy." BAM, blocked. YouTube? "Piracy." BAM, blocked.
A step forward for government protectionism of failing business models, two steps back for free speech on the Internet.
The new bill would give the government the authority to shut down the sites with a court order; the site owner would have to petition the court to have it lifted
What ever happened to being innocent before guilty? In a free society, courts have to prove -you- guilty, not you have to prove your innocence.
Isn't it time that we realized that property is not property unless it is limited and move on?
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Is it piracy if you NEVER would have bought it to begin with
If it is free i might download it but at $30 to $50 i would NEVER even think of buying it
If there was NO loss of cash is it piracy
"I don't pitch OpenSUSE Linux to my friends, i let Microsoft do it for me
Is there any 'politically correct' way to tell the government to screw off?
If not, let me be the first to just say, "Screw off."
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
..that they actually have the nerve saying it will benefit consumers, because piracy is holding IP holders hands from innovating. Cute.. really cute..
The only point to having a new law for this, is to make it hard to access web servers that aren't in the U.S. by messing with DNS, regardless of whether the material was legally hosted where the servers were located. (If the problem was with U.S. hosted servers, existing law would be plenty good enough.)
All this legislation would do is drive piracy more underground and more distributed and more encrypted. Bring it on you political dinosaurs. 8P
Will this actually have an impact though? what piracy sites are run from the US? I assume this court order will only be effective for servers hosted in the states...
The new bill would give the government the authority to shut down the sites with a court order; the site owner would have to petition the court to have it lifted.
Did I read that right, that they can get the site yanked, and then you have to get to work to prove your innocence before you can have your site back up?
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
The DCMA notoriously was touted as solving the online piracy problem. The cold reality is that almost ten thousand small companies have shuttered their doors in the last almost 15 years. New startups are forced to prove that they are not infringing and while waiting they must cease all development. This can take months and cost upwards of 100K meaning that most tech startups must simply shutter their doors. Microsoft alone has filed DCMA takedown notices almost 500 times and is successful at shuttering the company nearly every time.
Now, media sites can be shut down for being "copyright infringing" with very little evidence to the contrary. A small company cannot fight the likes of MS, IBM, Apple, Sun, or the host of other awful DCMA bastards and now they'll need to worry about Bartlesman, Dreamworks, Pixar, and the like. This simply makes it impossible to start a new media company because all that the media conglomerates have to do is claim that someone is stealing and without your company being informed, you can be shut down. The DCMA shuts down software and this new rule will shutdown new media.
The DCMA is one of the main reasons that more and more companies are successfully competing in software development overseas and why more and more software is coming from Russia, China, Norway, and so on. It is becoming impossible to create a new software startup. And now in the land of unintended consequences, we just shipped all of our movie, music, and game production overseas.
There have been no new Googles for over a decade and we wonder where all of the jobs are going.
The judge would have final say over whether a site should be shut down or not.
No anyone can shut down the site, and by the time you make your way though the horrible court system here the site would never recover if allowed to re-open
you cant kill something then decide after the fact that it is okay if it continues to live
The MPAA, RIAA, and DMA have bought laws.
Don't you think that they have a right to expect a fair value for the legislators that they buy?
What good is buying a congressperson if you can't get the laws you want written the way you want?
Fight Spammers!
If the Democrats who really care about the people had any real power, we'd never seen these kind of power grabs
if, youre stupid enough to believe !!
Read radical news here
This is completely circumventing the notion of due process and the ideal of innocent until proven guilty. So if this is okay, then let's just have the judges hand down an order for execution of suspected murderers and then make the defendant file a motion for a stay of execution pending a trial.
The internet is such an amazing, useful and indispensable tool... yet I keep seeing a bunch of retards from a bygone age trying to subdue and control it using petty excuses such as copyright. This is seriously over "entertainment", like movies and music? Are we seriously expected to stand aside and let them take the the internet with such a lame excuse? Fuck the entertainment industries, they should either figure out a more consumer-friendly way to operate, or POAD because they are completely useless and their products are pure shite. Fuck the pirates who are giving those asshats an excuse to screw everyone over, and then don't have the balls to vote for the Pirate Parties to mitigate some of the damage. And most of all, fuck the douchebag politicians who are colluding with the "entertainers" to introduce anti-consumer, anti-democratic, anti-civil-rights laws like this, and who have no business being in office.
... reached the point where dealing in copyright violations are prosecuted worse than, say, dealing in hard drugs?
"online piracy and the sale of counterfeit goods costs American businesses billions of dollars, and result in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs"
Much the way national defense and senators' salaries cost American taxpayers trillions of dollars each year.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
For those who like getting their news from the source, here is the current (PDF) draft of the bill.
... that they actually mention piracy as the reason to implement this. Here in the Netherlands, similar legislation is being prepared, which by the way will require no court order whatsoever to have a site shut down, the public prosecutor can decide on a whim. The reason? You guessed it, "saving the children", or shutting down kiddie porn sites. As the minister stated: "Not to worry, but this is just for kiddie porn. Oh, and for other illegal stuff (like online piracy). Oh, and that includes hate speech too. Probably certain elements of a particular party we don't like much as well. But we'll exercise proper care" No checks, balances or even limits placed on this awesome power given to the prosecutors office... already famous for exercising proper care in sending a 10-man police force to do a nighttime raid on the home of an apparently extremely dangerous cartoonist making "hate-instigating" (i.e. subversive) cartoons. Or allowing cities to do door-to-door searches of homes looking for indoor weed plantations... but sending along municipal guys to check you're not claiming unemployment benefits while living it large, or having a dog without paying the tax. Oh and these are proper searches: fail to be home when they drop by a few times, and they will take a crowbar to your door.
Do not ever give in to pleas to relax controls to make life for the prosecutor a little easier "to catch more criminals". It's never about criminals nor child-molesters. We let them do it here, and allowed the government to thoroughly politicise the prosecutors' office, then took away the judiciary branch' power to check and balance. The result is not pretty... All these so called inconvenient controls exist for a reason.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
I just returned to the story and noticed that it doesn't link to the pdf file of the actual Senate Bill. When I first viewed the story as it appeared, a few hours ago, it linked straight to the full draft Bill from the U.S. Senate. The link's source (for the pdf document) was Wired. It might not have been attributed perfectly, but it was attributed well enough that I was able to go to the Wired story without any question, so I didn't think that was the issue.
Just curious why Slashdot (or the story submitter, not necessarily Commander Taco's doing, that was a probably futile attempt at humor) edited the initial story link.
tempus fugit
Seriously. The US government is 100% committed to spending a fortune regulating and enforcing use of the internet due to 'online piracy'. As a result the US government is directly providing law enforcement, judicial, and legislative staff to protect the video and music industry..... and yet they openly claim REGULATING BANKS and stock market (NOTE: the Republican party is almost 100% against regulating the banking industry) is bad???
Am I the only one who is concerned with this criminally insane paradox?
I am open source, and Linux baby!
Is it piracy if you NEVER would have bought it to begin with
If it is free i might download it but at $30 to $50 i would NEVER even think of buying it
If there was NO loss of cash is it piracy
Is it piracy if you board another ship at sea while hoisting the jolly roger, wearing a wooden leg, sporting a parrot on one shoulder and demanding chests full of gold doubloons?
Is it piracy if they don't have any doubloons?
Is it piracy if you then ravish their women? What if you don't exactly ravish them, but merely rip their bodices, accidentally exposing their heaving bosoms?
How fast must a bosom be moving in order to be considered "heaving?"
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Is it just me, or will this do nothing to stop downloading? After reading, it appears they will only go after sites selling things. I thought that downloading was the largest threat to "the industry", or are they just getting to the point they want to bring everything down that they don't make money off of?
GENERATION 25: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social exper
and this is what they are working on. Seriously, this is the best they could do...something that helps movie studios rake in more money. At the very least they could be going after the corporate scum that wrecked the economy in the first place.
Because every pirate site is within US jurisdiction, of course!
"I refer the honorable (?!?) legislators to the response given in Arkell vs. Pressdram."
Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)? :P
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Finally we'll again get good movies and music, just like it used to be before the market collapsed due to piracy.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
All the more reason to move over to I2P, or other general darknets, which can provide application-agnostic anonymous networking with end-to-end encryption. Why wait for the inevitable when we can build a secure internet on top of the old one?
With I2P, there are no central DNS servers and, the ISP / IP-address of a specific service is ideally not knowable, neither are the ISP / IP-addresses of visitors to e.g. a political website. I2P being p2p, no authority has the power to shut down a site, prevent visitors using services in the I2P "darkcloud" or even snoop on the network activities (without using leaking honeypots, assimilating keys somehow or perform (D)DOS attacks). I2P uses random ports, so it's not as simple to block as blocking a portrange either. Being based on p2p coupled with encrypted tunnels, I2P resists most common attacks, even by formidable adversaries such as governments. You can run any website, any type of application, over I2P, however care must of course be taken to eliminate "identity leaks" in the application layer, even though the network-layer takes care of most anonymity, encryption and p2p.
So if you are to host "objectionable" content, whatever that may mean across the globe, I'd suggest taking a peek at I2P, as the "normal" internuts seems to be screwed in the short/mid-term. Heck, we should probably start using I2P for any and all purposes, so that I2P content is "legitimate" and equally protected from being censored and snooped upon in the first place.
I2P main site as a start. It's java and open source, so easily cross-platform and performs well (for a Java app anyway):
http://www.i2p2.de/
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/
Newspapers? Saying that there is a torrent from a movie is not so different from saying that i.e. John Doe robbed that bank.
Search engines? Directly or indirectly search engines links to movies and pirated material
Web 2.0? Everything with user participation have potential to be used to "exchange links"
Mail? Mailing lists?
At most they should be going against the people that put them online at the first place
Wonder how fast will be censored all post that names the Great Firewall of America, but probably that is what they really should do if they don't want that americans download so easily pirated movies.
To a totalitarian country as private speech is squelched under the guise of 'anti piracy' ( or 'hate speech' or several other forms of free speech that is under attack ).
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I disagree, in reality the supreme court holds more power, since they can pick and choose what cases/issues they take.
I agree the founders never meant for it to be that way however.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
So the plaintiff doesn't have to pony up the cash to do it, and can now accuse at will, without any regard to potential returns. However, keeping it in civil court keeps the accused at a disadvantage as they have to effectively prove their innocence, at their expense.
Buying laws is fun.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
a way to shut down ebay.
Unix, an obscure operating system developed by bored researchers in an attempt to get a better game playing experience.
Nothing can unite a governmental body like monetary payoffs in exchange for broader control of the population.
but do you mind citing one or two actual companies "shut down" by DMCA?
321 Studios for one.
If you look closely at the bill, it's actually usefull to shutdown sites that contain classified documents too, such as ooh Wikileaks... That, I think, is the real target. http://ktetch.blogspot.com/2010/09/us-senators-in-big-copyrights-pocket.html
Just another brown floater in a long depressing stream of never ending draconian legislative BS from big media's favorite strap-on(TM) tool.
all such sites will just move to china and russia, as they are already doing, and these countries will have more cards to play in trade negotiations of any sort. china already 'has' united states' entire debt. russia is back as a power. chinese rep to wto even said that usa was already a bankrupt country and its rating agencies' opinion mattered zit.
your self serving representatives harm even their own interests, it seems.
This would seem to be the first step in enforcing borders on the net; expect other countries (france) to follow soon.
Blocking internet trade will be a powerful whip when a country refuses to sign ACTA.
disclaimer: im not an oracle tho I did win the 2019 crystal ball award.
I thought "free" was pretty good until I listened to these fine senators and their helpful business friends. Now I understand that there is a slippery slope from skipping through that commercial to piracy, and to terrorism.
don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org
Wonderful! The use of public money to enforce copyright, that's fair. In fact, we should simply assume some poeple somewhere will somehow violate copyright and from public funds pay all copyright holders massive largess.
Or maybe, just as an idea, how about we crack down on criminal acts and leave civil matters to the people with a stake in them to pay for?
I predict piracy will not stop until media and software companies stop using DRM which breaks their product and users understand that you can't get something for nothing forever. So in other words we're in for a long battle.
"We are just a war away from Amerikastan. When god vs god the undoing of man." Dave Mustaine
Uh-oh, is 4Chan now going to take down the Senate Judiciary Committee? :-)
By the way, the summary left out an important part of this sentence:
"Business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce hailed the legislation as a huge step forward... off a cliff."
The issue is that they could do so for a civil infraction, as opposed to a criminal infraction.
Copyright infringement can be prosecuted as a federal felony charge.
The United States No Electronic Theft Act (NET Act), a federal law passed in 1997, provides for criminal prosecution of individuals who engage in copyright infringement, even when there is no monetary profit or commercial benefit from the infringement. Maximum penalties can be five years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. The NET Act also raised statutory damages by 50%.
In addition, it added a threshold for criminal liability where the infringer neither obtained nor expected to obtain anything of value for the infringement. In response to the NET Act, the US Sentencing Commission stiffened sanctions for intellectual property theft offenses. NET Act
The federal government has the constitutional right to criminally prosecute violations of federally granted property rights.
Prosecuting economic crimes with an interstate or international dimension is primarily a federal responsibility.
In a service-based economy, the entertainment industry generates a lot of jobs and a lot of domestic and export dollars. Many of those jobs and many of those dollars going directly into the pockets of the American geek - and not to the Russian or the Swede in Pirate Bay.
Two Individuals Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Traffic in Counterfeit Slot Machines and Computer Programs [casino gambling software] [August 20]
Thibodaux Man Pleads Guilty To Violation Of Digital Millennium Copyright Act [XBox 360 mods and pirated games] [maximum exposure, 5 years and $500,000, sentencing in 2011] [August 11]
Manhattan Federal Court Orders Seizures Of Seven Websites For Criminal Copyright Infringement In Connection With Distribution Of Pirated Movies Over The Internet [June 30]
Texas Man Admits Involvement In Software Piracy Conspiracy [Warez] [August 10]
TPB and the like aren't hosted within the United States, as far as I can tell from the article, the U.S still doesn't have permission to go after international sites.
Just like they have cracked down on WikiLeaks !
This joke of a bill assumes you are guilty and punishes you until YOU prove yourself innocent-at THEIR timetable of course!
The RIAA can target anyone they want-the judge says: "yup yup yup" and POOF! you are out of business!
Of course you can have the order lifted-right? Let's see...your appeal date is is scheduled for six months from now-until then you REMAIN out of business! What do you mean you don't have enough money to operate without any business that long? TOO BAD!!!!.
Every day...every single day I see another one of these-taking away freedoms from PEOPLE and giving them to CORPORATIONS! We truly ARE fast becoming the Corporate States of America!!
If prosecutors have a clear case of violation, then let them get a court order (preferably with knowledge of the victim so that they can respond). That way overzealous prosecutors don't cause a chilling effect.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
It is a wildly popular but incredibly false concept that legislation actually extinguishes a behavior.
Downloading is kind of dumb because unless you are a wizard at RIAA dodging technology, these people are looking for you and could, conceivably, actually find you. Especially if you're downloading a lot from your dorm room.
Another reason downloading is somewhat déclassé is because you have to specifically request a title, which means you have to know exactly what you want, which means that your cultural development is limited to what you already know and like.
One of the great features of Napster was that you could scan the lists of other people's offerings who were sharing files on Napster. Chances were high that if you liked a very specific form of music and you found great titles on another sharer's listing, then the other titles in their offered collection would be great even if you weren't familiar with the songs or bands .
All the bulk 'pirate' websites since then don't offer this feature: they just offer a library of specific titles that you have to request.
Everyone has spare old hard disks hanging around. Let's fill up our old drives with music:art:video:films that we think are fantastic and share drives instead of files. No one will ever get caught by the MPAA/RIAA, and we will get exposed to new works that we would never be exposed to otherwise. This is what the media companies are supposed to do but fail so pathetically at doing.
I myself love movies. So when I upgraded my hard drive to a two terabyte I took the old 600 gigabyte and filled it with my favorite films copied from DVDs available at the public library. I share it with co-workers. Out of the sixty or so movies, they may have heard of only a few. But they are all good and they are all free and they are all available to them on the drive.
Here is a list of the movies on my old shared hard disk. What's on your shared hard disk?
Goldfinger 1964
Unfaithfully Yours 1939**
From Russia With Love 1963
Sea Change - Jesse Stone 2004
GoldenEye 1992
Taken 2007
For Your Eyes Only 1986
Night Passage - Jesse Stone 2005
Quantum of Solace 2007
The Seagull's Laughter (Iceland) 2004
The Departed 2007
Thunderball 1966
For A Few Dollars More 1967
El Topo (Mexico) 1967
La Jetee (France) 1962
Stone Cold - Jesse Stone 2006
Death In Paradise - Jesse Stone 2006
I Could Never Be Your Woman 2005
Lost Horizon 1939
Farewell, My Concubine (China) 1989
My Best Friend (France) 2001
Logan's Run 1975
Dr. No 1962
Black Sunday 1976
Infernal Affairs (Chinese-Hong Kong) 1999
You Only Live Twice 1967
Two English Girls (France) 1971 Truffaut
The Godfather (part 1) 1972
CSI_Miami Season 5_Disk 5 2005
Dangerous Beauty 2006
Vicky Christina Barcelona 2007
City of God (Brazil) 2004
Marathon Man 1977
The World Is Not Enough 1996
Star Trek IV _ The Voyage Home 1986
Toby Dammit (Italy) 1966 Fellini
Waitress 2006
A Hard Day's Night 1964
Space Cowboys 1999
Day For Night (France) 1974 Truffaut
Hamlet (Mel Gibson) 1989
Beauty And The Beast (France) 1946
Bride and Prejudice (India) 2005
The Black Book (Netherlands) 2005
Sleepless In Seattle 1992
Nash Bridges [Wild Card] 1999
The Wings of a Dove 1998
Dangerous Liasions 1989
Love on the Run (France) 1979 Truffaut
My Man Godfrey 1936**
The Ninth Gate 2004
The Man Who Loved Women (France) 1979 Truffaut
The Big Lebowski 1999
The Thomas Crown Affair 1998
American Gangster 2006
Dune 1982
Flawless 2007
Bandlieu 13 (France) 2008
Shine A Light (the Rolling Stones) 2008
Goodfellas 1990
The Dirty Dozen 1967
Ben And Board (France) 1970 Truffaut
State of Play 2008
then they can cost the hosting company money ...who cares
the usa is lost to innovation and is now akin to only greed cant wait for them to just cut off themselves form the rest of the world
no one wants or needs any americans
and i guess all the gun violence, murder rape and missing children the fbi aren't looking for are all solved and no more of that is happening.....GUESS if you can't solve the other stuff pick on kids sitting at home nice and safe...yup give them more reasons to wander off not the world and have the rest you can't solve get them....
GO OBAMA
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
WORLD WIDE WEB...
Our laws won't apply to everywhere. At most it will be used to punish our own citizens who inadvertiantly purchase something from a shady location due to a discount in price. When will they wake up?
--- Relax, that mass muderer is just trying to reduce our carbon footprint, one fetus at a time...
If they managed to actually shut down The Pirate Bay, EZTV and all the other torrent sites on the entire internet, all that would happen is people would go back to grabbing lists from IRC and FTP downloading like they did in the late 90's to 2001ish.
More time and effort should be spent on making sure products are actually worth selling, and then piracy wouldn't matter. For example, I'm pretty sure Blizzard's Starcraft 2 is still making tons of money regardless of it being available for download, as well as I'm pretty sure the next Harry Potter movie is going to make shitloads of money, just like it's previous movies, regardless of it being on The Pirate Bay.
What successful product has ever really been hurt by piracy? How many shitty products that deserve to fail (or at least get subpar earnings) has been tanked by piracy? So companies that make shitty movies make less money - good - that's how business is designed to work.
Ave Molech Setting
first they better shut down every redirector service that doesn't rely on their official DNS:
http://navig8.to/
http://kickme.to/
http://no-ip.com/
etc...
Then we'll be forced to enter IP-addresses manually. Surely that will stop all piracy, because we all know pirates are lazy and stupid and won't know what to do!!
We sure didn't invent like 20 other protocols we could use or anything... I've never heard of anything like Direct Connect, Gnutella2, NNTP (usenet), BitTorrent (with DHT), Kademlia, Soulseek/Nicotine, FastTrack, OpenNap, P2PTV.
These idiots *ALWAYS* try this, they shut down one or two sites that were indexing movies or games or whatever. It makes a difference for like a week, 2 people that probably deserved it end up in trouble, 20,000 morons have to spend a few minutes researching how to steal things again, and most of them figure it out. A couple people that have lots of money and know better than to waste their time are further discouraged. A bunch of lawyers and lobbyists get richer. Some detectives get promoted. And everyone else gets used to the stupidity of the whole thing. I don't know if I should even feel sorry for their wasted efforts. It's nice to see them cluelessly claiming victory over these things, but that effort could be so much better spent on some other problem like homelessness. Of course, the politicians solution would probably be to relocate all the homeless people to another city, or just harass them with police. Are these policy makers just lazy or something? I don't see how it's so difficult to come up with a solution to a problem when you have a proper education...
The article mentions both piracy and the sale of counterfeited goods. However, it is unclear if this simply stops web sites selling bootleg copies of movies, or also allows shutting down of sites where people post movies (through torrents or direct downloads). If it is about shutting down web sites where counterfeited movies are sold then I am all for it, provided they fix the inherent due process problem. At least if you are going to get a court order, do it in the form of an injunction so you have to show likelihood of success in some other suit still pending.
The senate refused to block senators and congressmen from trading based on insider information. When asked by a Fox news reporter : "Why was Oprah convicted of trading insider information while senators can't be convicted?", the respected GOP Senator from illinois refused to answer the question.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
Out of curiosity, (I am not factoring in the practicality of this), can a court order be issued to hijack an IP? I mean, if I register a domain name, obviously a court order can be issued to request the registrar to point the domain name else where, where the person wielding the court order request. It has been done and that is not what I am asking. What I am asking is, if you have a leased line for example or some form of Internet access with a fixed IP to your server, can your IP address be taken away from you. (NOT a dynamic IP like most ISP issue. A static IP you are paying for with your service / dedicate line.)
It would be a bit of a pain, but for site that may have valid value but some jack wad decides to interfere with it, through various channels get the ip popular. People can set up host file entries and call it what ever is easy to remember and point it to your IP. Then some so called pirate site couldn't have their domain hijacked because they wouldn't have one. This assumes of course that your paid for IP address is yours,and not rented like a domain name.
Your political forum is shut down the first time some kid quotes 1984.
They won't care about sparse buried quotes on obscure sites. But when Johnny makes a big impression using 1984 quotes and then links to known troublemakers, the copyright book will suddenly get thrown at him (among other nasty legal things).
The other sponsors are Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio).
Missed out mentioning 'A. Shill (M-AA)'
A law that expedites shutting down of sites that host or facilitate the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted content is certainly not a bad thing.
Yes, potentially there could be a problem for 'dual-purpose' sites e.g. ones which can host / link to public domain material but can also host unauthorized content. But then it's the responsibility of the site owners to ensure that unauthorized content does not find it's way on their site. Just because you are running a site on the internet for business or as a hobby should not absolve you from requiring to set up proper processes in place (just like any brick and mortar business is required to).
There are already legitimate means to get digital content and these would probably only get better if we can truly clamp down on unauthorized downloading of such material.
Where to, that's the question. I want good food and fast broadband. Cool smartphones would be a plus.
Denmark: 20/1 for 45$/month, 50/5 for 90$. An N900 for 700$, Android phones at similar prices. You can get cheap phones with 6-month shackles or expensive phones with cheap subscriptions and no shackles. Mobile internet for 10$/month (1/.5, capped at 1 GB).
Oh, we can buy milk that's milked within 24 hours at our groceries.
So why are we (the government) spending millions of dollars protecting intangible property while every day virii, worms, bots and other malware are being distributed via email and http servers, social networks and advertisers? There's a huge underground industry supporting worm and virii R&D in order to generate income from sources ranging from advertising revenue all the way to identity theft and credit fraud. Sources distributing this malware are easily identifiable, and could quite possibly be contained if only the primary distribution points could be shut down rather quickly. Likewise, a more proactive approach to unsolicited email advertisements (spam) would make it less cost effective for spammers to distribute malware. To me this is a much bigger impact, more victims and far more important than busting someone for sharing a copy of "Son of the Mask." That movie sucked anyway, and Jamie Kennedy looks nothing like Rocky Dennis.
I'm not an expert, but I play one on slashdot.
We should start in government and business. All government and business should have their accounting books openly verifiable, online, live, for immediate inspections of transactions with indicted groups with involvement in money laundering, terrorism, tax evasion, drug and people trafficking, and child porn. "Business trade and accounting secrets and privacy" cannot remain an excuse for covering up endangering all of society. If only the police could track the money, they can track down all crime. What, you object? Do you have something to hide?
Build your own energy sources from scratch. http://otherpower.com/
In case it hasn't been posted yet, here's a link to the actual bill hosted on Wired
You can't monitor ALL the internet ALL the time. Pirates are a sneaky bunch, they will always find a way...
The fool never knows when to keep his big mouth shut.
Generations of lawyers, accountants, and detectives have fed on the corpses of investors who thought their ownership and control of distant enterprises had been successfully disguised.
I really dont see how this is going to do much of anything at all.....most servers are not in the US they are overseas already. If they are here they already have the overly powerful DMCA that they can exercise on this. The only way that I can see this being relevant is if ISPs get the authority to block URLs, domains, or IPs and that is a whole other issue that I do not believe this bill addresses.....
LEOs regularly exaggerate, embellish & lie to magistrates 'n judges, both in court & in chambers to get convictions, warrants & court orders galore.
I don't see why copyright law enforcement should've ever entered the criminal code, it should have just remained a part of the civil law code like patent law.