USA Set to censor the internet.
In the United States, a new law proposal called The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced, and there will be a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee November 18, 2010.
If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China ( Read more... )
If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China ( Read more... )
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This seems like a very GOOD thing to me.
People ask why all the shows they love get canceled? It's because "nobody" watches those shows. Sure they get stolen and redistributed... But no advertisers get paid, no cable companies, no valid internet sites like Hulu play them out... If people really like the music/tv/movies they steal, they'd pay for it as well. Otherwise, we all lose out when the ratings simply don't show through.
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Laws such as these come riddles with backdoor loopholes giving a much broader array of powers than just the original intention.
Under a facade of enforcing copyright laws, any and every website in existance (since this law will be forced upon every country worldwide) comes under threat of blacklisting, whether there really is copyrighted material or not.
File sharing sites, file storage sites, these will also fall under the perview of this law...goodbye storage, goodbye file sharing...these are not paranoid fears, but very realistic probabilities.
Entrusting governement (or whichever agency will oversee this law if it passes) to act only in accordance to what the law is MEANT to do, is naive.
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