Web Censorship Bill Sails Through Senate Committee

[HallisChalmers]

Relevant quote: "Among the sites that could go dark if the law passes: Dropbox, RapidShare, SoundCloud, Hype Machine and any other site for which the Attorney General deems copyright infringement to be “central to the activity” of the site, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group that opposes the bill. There need not even be illegal content on a site — links alone will qualify a site for digital death. Websites at risk could also theoretically include p2pnet and pirate-party.us or any other website that advocates for peer-to-peer file sharing or rejects copyright law, according to the group."


http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/coica-web-censorship-bill/

[whizdumb]

I saw that coming but there's still alot to accomplish to pass this bill.. Then all it takes is for the bill to become law.. Someone with a website then gets shut down and they take it all the way up to the supreme court who will do some bench legislation and declare the bill unconstitutional based on 1st amendment rights. It's just gunna be a stupid whirlwind of legal crap before it becomes a dead issue and the lawmakers come up with some more crap to legislate. I'm not too worried about this bill.. Plus I believe that the president has already said he doesn't support it so it may get squashed by a pocket veto even before the rest of this junk plays out.

If all else fails.. I've got one word for everybody....PROXY.. routing through and offshore sever will be the obvious bypass.. and since we are all so interested in bypassing things on this site, I believe that this will be the obvious solution.

[xeo]

Things like this only force pirates to become more creative... and this usually produces a much more potent form of piracy. The future of digital piracy will probably be something like distributing the latest warez via steganographic messages. No matter how hard the Orwellian boot stamps us in the face, it will never stop piracy.. that's just a simple fact of life that these politicians will never wrap their primitive and illogical minds around.

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[Scrince]

Its going to be a while before this bill passes ! Anyone use Piratebay?

[chris]

thepiratebay.org is one of the most tracked sites by the federal authorites here in the U.S. A lot of the torrents that they offer do have trackers in them that register IP's and notify respective copywrite owners. I know quite a few people that have recieved the "copywrite infringement notification" from their ISP's from torrents from that site. Use with caution.

[barbarian]

.... A lot of the torrents that they offer do have trackers in them that register IP's and notify respective copywrite owners.....

It's even simpler than this. If they download a torrent, any torrent, and become part of the swarm, then all the IP's of people in the swarm are visible to them.

It's not that the torrents on Piratebay have something hidden in them.

The guys on PirateBay have a program called IPREDator. It works very well. Makes it impossible for anyone other than the NSA to track you. It slows down the transfer by about 50%. That's getting better all the time tho..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPREDator