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File Sharing = Terrorism? |
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Written by Steve
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011 14:54 |
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The next time you decide to visit your favorite torrent website, there’s a chance you’ll see a big shiny Department of Homeland Security logo and message about how much prison time you can get for copyright infringement. In the last week of November, the DHS shut down and seized the domain names of at least 76 web sites for copyright violations. Most of the websites that were shut down were torrent file sharing sites, but at least one, torrent-finder.com, was a torrent search engine similar to Google. Operating under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which we can thank Clinton for), DHS was able to shut down these sites without a court order and without any requirement that the copyright holders prove that infringement was taking place. This is fucked up in so many different ways I don’t even know where to begin.
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