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Much has been said about folks not reading the link... well I did.
Hot on the heels of recent threats from Vice President Joe Biden and Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel directed at sites offering unauthorized movies and music, last month U.S. authorities targeted several sites they claimed were connected to the streaming of infringing video material.
As part of a new initiative cracking down on Internet piracy and counterfeiting, yesterday the U.S. government took action against nine web portals suspected of streaming of first-run movies. Not only were domain names targeted, but assets seized from bank, PayPal and other accounts. One site, NinjaVideo, was warned by TorrentFreak months ago they were being watched.
So, 73,000 sites were not shutdown by the government, but instead by ISP's hoping to avoid prosecution by shutting off their servers and their hosted sites with them.[ovcatto]
Blogetery.com claimed the shut down of 73,000 blogs “was not a typical case, in which suspension and notification would be the norm. This was a critical matter brought to our attention by law enforcement officials. We had to immediately remove the server.”
LOL, so now blogs hosted on privately owned servers are a Constitutional right? In what daydream? Oh Lawd! Whatever did we DO before the internet existed!? Obviously, the government should be sued for not providing it since day one. In fact, the government should just pay for free broadband for everyone - since it's a "right"!
The people who lost their blog host are NOT being punished - that's just maximum partisan spin - the people who hosted their blogs are. That's how life goes -- if the guy managing the local Domino's is peddling coke out the back door and the owner shuts the place down until things are straightened out, he isn't abridging anyone's rights..
does anyone actually believe that the federal goverment is there to be yoor friend and ally? if you believe that, ask AQ if the USA is there to be their friend as well. it is about the same amount of friendship in both cases.
We certainly do not want the government pulling the plug on hosts that offer sites on how to make bombs now do we?
/sarcasm
Big deal, they pull the plug on 1 single site with that information, just surf to the next one in the very long list of sites worldwide with that info. The deal with this is the heavy handed approach. Nobody is arguing taking that stuff off line, but the 70,000 other sites that got taken down as well.
Big deal, they pull the plug on 1 single site with that information, just surf to the next one in the very long list of sites worldwide with that info. The deal with this is the heavy handed approach. Nobody is arguing taking that stuff off line, but the 70,000 other sites that got taken down as well.
I do agree with you, it is a bit heavy handed.
edit: but then again, we do not know the whole story.
Last edited by ughh_Mondays; 07-20-2010 at 09:03 AM..
Reason: added more
Well, i was assuming that it was some sort of terrorist bomb making site.
But yes, im aware you can easily find this kind of stuff.
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