DHS Seizes Websites for Merely LINKING to Copyrighted Material
Apparently the Department of Homeland Security is now authorized to rewrite and enforce copyright infringement laws. In a stunning precedent, the recent round of domain seizures to shut down websites that allowed illegal streaming of the Super Bowl also included a few other websites that were seized simply for linking to infringing content.
These new actions by the DHS and the courts seem to be motivated more by private corporate profits than by actual copyright law. Nonetheless, the agenda seems to be to make nearly every website that links to copyrighted material guilty of criminal infringement, thus justifying arbitrarily blacklisting domains deemed to be in violation of such a broad precedent. This is yet another Napoleonic guilty-until-proven-innocent action, apparently displaying the corporate state's lack of concern for the rights of individuals and small businesses. What's more, it is also another tyrannical tool being used to control the flow of information
Despite the DHS's obvious distortion of the law, we are rapidly approaching a day where information can no longer flow freely on the Internet. We better wake up and share these stories with everyone we know, because tyranny is fast approaching. These words written above belong to nobody but the open-source, free Internet. Share and re-post at will. [see full article]
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compare: Internet "Trusted Identity" Program A Few Months Out 1-8-11 "a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans...will be released by the president in the next few months"
The reality is...that the reality is upon us. fyi Rom 13:11
Apparently the Department of Homeland Security is now authorized to rewrite and enforce copyright infringement laws. In a stunning precedent, the recent round of domain seizures to shut down websites that allowed illegal streaming of the Super Bowl also included a few other websites that were seized simply for linking to infringing content.
These new actions by the DHS and the courts seem to be motivated more by private corporate profits than by actual copyright law. Nonetheless, the agenda seems to be to make nearly every website that links to copyrighted material guilty of criminal infringement, thus justifying arbitrarily blacklisting domains deemed to be in violation of such a broad precedent. This is yet another Napoleonic guilty-until-proven-innocent action, apparently displaying the corporate state's lack of concern for the rights of individuals and small businesses. What's more, it is also another tyrannical tool being used to control the flow of information
Despite the DHS's obvious distortion of the law, we are rapidly approaching a day where information can no longer flow freely on the Internet. We better wake up and share these stories with everyone we know, because tyranny is fast approaching. These words written above belong to nobody but the open-source, free Internet. Share and re-post at will. [see full article]
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compare: Internet "Trusted Identity" Program A Few Months Out 1-8-11 "a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans...will be released by the president in the next few months"
The reality is...that the reality is upon us. fyi Rom 13:11
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