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NinjaguyDan Mar 9, 2011 11:38 AM
Well this doesnt bode well for sharing music...
 
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Breaking: Newly Obtained Homeland Security Documents Reveal Radical Shift In Internet Policy
FIGHT BACK: Internet user arrested for linking to other websites.

Brian McCarthy ran a website, channelsurfing.net, that linked to various sites where you could watch online streams of TV shows and sports networks. A couple months ago, the government seized his domain name and on Friday they arrested him and charged him with criminal copyright infringement -- punishable by five years in prison.

We just obtained a copy of the complaint (below) that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made against him -- and they don't even allege that he made a copy of anything! Just that he ran what they call a "linking website" which linked to various sites with copyrighted material. Under that sort of thinking, everyone who's sent around a link to a copyrighted YouTube video is a criminal.

This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE -- a steamship-era department that's proving once again that it doesn't understand the Internet. We need to push back -- and fast -- before they try to lock up more Americans.

PETITION TO JANET NAPOLITANO, DIRECTOR OF HOMELAND SECURITY, AND JOHN MORTON, DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT: There's nothing wrong or illegal about posting a link to a website. This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE: You need to drop the charges against Brian McCarthy right away.
Breaking: Newly Obtained Homeland Security Documents Reveal Radical Shift In Internet Policy | Demand Progress

I poked it and it made a sad sound Mar 9, 2011 12:08 PM
Pretty sure there's nothing "radical" about this. They've arrested people for linking to copyrighted material before.

I mean, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that this kind of thing happened before a few years ago.

Zip Mar 9, 2011 01:23 PM
I think that was their excuse for like the pirate bay too, even though they only "linked" the stuff.
these laws are really old though..

Misogynyst Gynecologist Mar 13, 2011 01:02 PM
Agree with what Sass and Zip said here.

Also - linking to a site called DEMANDPROGRESS is about as opinion-slanted and trust-worthy as Fox News.


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