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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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..

no homo

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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