New Law Would Force Search Engines to Block "Infringing" Sites

[n03s]

This article is no joke.. Its is very serious, laws like these aim mostly to regulate than to "protect" IP.. Therumancer post is great and very informative on the matter.
Also about two weeks ago I stubbled on this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8481330/Alarm-over-EU-Great-Firewall-proposal.html
I dont like where things are going.. I am agaisnt piracy, but godamit I would freak the fuck out if they mess with the information flow on the internet.

 

[Awexsome]

I'm all for something like this. It sounds like something that could finally give the government power to take down sites like pirate bay and other filesharing sites.

Of course it wouldn't be a perfect surgical strike of just every illegal file but it's a good start and far, far better than just doing nothing. I'd vote for it.

I'd rather actually get the pirates and work things out with a few collateral damage cases than keep having it running rampant.

 

[Bobbity]

I'm utterly against piracy, but this bill makes me uncomfortable: not for what it does, but for the precedent it sets, and the implications that it holds.

Tackling piracy, go right ahead. Protecting IPs? I'm amazed that anyone would be against it. However, the manner in which this bill works, and the broad sphere of, at most, peripherally related things that it concerns, coupled with powers over foreign domains, is not a healthy way to go about it.

 

[Ldude893]

Anonymous is not going to be amused.
They're not going to be amused at all.

 

[roguetrooper96]

"Hey, you, old lady! Do you want to download an album and 'Try before you buy' or even share a really large file with friends? Well you can't ha ha ha!"
"Hey, you, 10 yr old! Do you want to look at pictures of dead bodies, drugs, illigal activities, rape, 2girls1cup, and some other terrible shit that really should be taken off of the internet? Well go ahead coz we can't be assed censoring it."

This is why I hate the government, they just can't understand the word 'Priority.'

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I thought I already posted this, but I beat you guys to this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.283301-New-internet-censorship-bill-would-force-search-engines-to-censor-themselves#11133343


Sort of, anyways, I made the thread about a DIFFERENT bill that would be even worse:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/revised-net-censorship-bill-requires-search-engines-to-block-sites-too.ars

 

[Atmos Duality]

Given that every single internet forum has some form of unauthorized copyright infringement on it, expect hilarity to ensue if/when this goes into action.

Hilarity and rage.
Well, if you thought that Ad-providers had a lot of power before, they will be the Law on the internet now.

 

[punipunipyo]

first they harass the outlaw/outcasts, you'd join them on the move of the "Just", but think what this means? when they decides to tell you what their "Justice"/"Judgment" is pointing to? Do they have the "right" to "ex-communicate" sites? Do they have the "privilege" to decide where is the line? If one day, they decides to call off all the "abandon ware"? all the sites with emulators? what if they decides to go further, to attack the "fandom", "doujin", "fan-fiction" communities? because they ARE using other peoples' intellectual properties, thus, to the "lawful", this is a "violation", what happens to evident arts? can't we not sell prints of our fan-arts? on deviants? you might think "nah, they wouldn't gone that far..." think again... this is only the beginning.

(or i could be over reacting, but every time the authorities puts down their iron fist, it just makes me edgy...)

 

[rapidoud]

Still think this won't work. US based companies can't interact with foreign websites whoopy doo, they just interact with an intermediary. Even if they tried to block it that would make it worse as people would just use overseas proxies.

And then what if an ad-based company just 'happened' to be overseas? Zzz...