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« on: November 22, 2010, 01:13:31 PM »

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Thanks to a bill that has received bipartisan support in the Senate, the Department of Justice may soon have the power to suspend domain names if the Attorney General deems a site as having copyright infringement “central to the activity” conducted by the site owners.  Hollywood and the recording industry has pushed the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) to get the government in position to seize Internet sites that damage the property rights of intellectual property producers, bypassing the existing remedies of lawsuits and damage recoveries.  However, the ambiguous nature of the definition and the wide latitude it gives the executive branch in imposing remedies without due process should have everyone in the First Amendment space nervous — especially the blogosphere:

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...Hillary Clinton just got done warning China not to censor the internet in almost exactly the way this bill would allow Eric Holder to do.  It’s not the first time in recent weeks that we’ve barked at China for actions that the US has either proposed taking or actually has taken, like devaluing currency to boost exports.

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On the surface, this bill addresses a real problem, which is piracy of copyrighted materials.  No one really disputes that piracy costs Hollywood and the recording industry a lot of money, and the Internet makes it a lot easier to accomplish.  However, this bill threatens to go much farther, and hands far too much power to the executive branch to act as a virtual executioner.  Instead of going through the legal process of suing violators and forcing them into court — a process which favors the side with the most lawyers, like Hollywood and the RIAA — the bill bypasses a trial to test the facts of the case and puts the Attorney General in position as a judge as well as a prosecutor.  That alone should set off alarm bells.

read more - http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/19/coica-giving-the-government-the-power-to-shut-down-dissent/

How long before someone at the White House or DOJ decides to apply race based statistics to their enforcement?

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I’d like to see them suspend a domain from another country. This won’t accomplish anything. All of the major copyright infringement sites are already based in countries other than the US.

thphilli on November 19, 2010 at 2:52 PM

Is Obama planning to shut down the internet?  All those sites in Russia, China, & the Caribbean?  Might that be a problem for all those money launderers?
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