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UK ISPs Hatch Plan To Block the Pirate Bay and Other File Sharing Sites
An anonymous reader writes "UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are already in talks with media rights holders to block around 100 file sharing and cyberlocker websites, it has emerged. The move comes as ISPs BT and TalkTalk won a Judicial review of the Digital Economy Act (DEA) resulting in a 2-year delay on its implementation. The voluntary code is a planned workaround to the delay in the DEA and rights holders attempt to curb file sharing. If passed the code would see rights holders pass evidence of websites that 'facilitate' illegal file sharing to ISPs who would then block access to the sites in question. However, ISPs are reluctant and are pushing for a high court judge to approve any site blocking. ... Amongst the 100 sites is the worlds most resilient Bittorrent site, The Pirate Bay and Usenet's reincarnated NewzBin2."
Where does it say that in the first amendment?
It doesn't. It says that in Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
which gives Congress exactly that authority. Seeing as the 1st Amendment has never been understood (including by the people who wrote it) as altering that clause, well.....turns out the constitution is pretty clear that
Trading in illegally copied material is not protected speech, in America
Granted, I think current copyright law is insane, and I'm to the left of Cory Doctorow on this point, but you're still a moron.