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bob · Sep 20, 2010

Bill Would Give Justice Department Power to Shutter Piracy Sites Worldwide

Lawmakers introduced legislation Monday that would let the Justice Department seek U.S. court orders against piracy websites anywhere in the world, and shut them down through the sitesâ€™ domain registration.
The bipartisan legislation, dubbed the â€œCombating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act,â€ (.pdf) amounts to the Holy Grail of intellectual-property enforcement. The recording industry and movie studies have been clamoring for such a capability since the George W. Bush Administration. If passed, the Justice Department could ask a federal court for an injunction that would order a domain registrar or registry to stop resolving a infringing siteâ€™s domain name, so that visitors to PirateBay.org, for example, would get a 404 error.
â€œIn todayâ€™s global economy the internet has become the glue of international commerce â€“- connecting consumers with a wide-array of products and services worldwide,â€ said Senator Orin Hatch (R-Utah) in a statement announcing the bill. â€œBut itâ€™s also become a tool for online thieves to sell counterfeit and pirated goods, making hundreds of millions of dollars off of stolen American intellectual property.â€
The bill would direct injunctions at a piracy siteâ€™s domain registrar, if the registration was through a U.S. company. If not, the Justice Department could serve the court order at the registry for the siteâ€™s top-level domain. Registryâ€™s for the dot-com, dot-net and dot-org domains are all U.S.-based, and thus within the courtsâ€™ jurisdiction.
If history is a guide, though, the bill might fail in Congress.
The Bush administration in 2008 threatened to veto the legislation that created the nationâ€™s first copyright czar until similar Justice Department powers were removed. At the time, the White House complained that directing the attorney general to sue copyright infringers â€œcould result in Department of Justice prosecutors serving as pro bono lawyers for private copyright holders regardless of their resources. In effect, taxpayer-supported department lawyers would pursue lawsuits for copyright holders, with monetary recovery going to industry.â€
Things may be different under President Barack Obama. The president has tapped five former Recording Industry Association of America lawyers to key Justice Department positions. And the government, under the code name â€œOperation in Our Sites,â€ has recently seized the domains of at least two first-run movie sites under a process similar to the one outlined in Mondayâ€™s proposed legislation.
Bob Pisano, the Motion Picture Association of America chief executive, applauded the measureâ€™s introduction.
â€œThese sites, whose content is hosted and whose operators are located throughout the world, take many forms. But they have in common the simple fact that they all materially contribute to, facilitate and/or induce the illegal distribution of copyrighted works, such as movies and television programs,â€ Pisano said.
Mitch Bainwol, the RIAAâ€™s chairman, welcomed the proposal.
â€œThe trafficking of pirated American movies and music from rogue websites outside our borders is a big business,â€ Bainwol said. â€œThis bill is a welcome first step toward cutting off the financial lifeline that sustains these illegal operations and threatens the livelihoods of countless members of the American music community.â€
Websites eligible for Justice Department targeting â€” if the measure is approved â€” must be â€œdedicated to infringing activities,â€ according to the textâ€™s language. A site can be â€œsubject to civil forfeitureâ€ if itâ€™s â€œprimarily designedâ€ as a pirate site with â€œno demonstrable, commercially significant purpose or useâ€ other than to distribute pirated or counterfeited wares.
The measureâ€™s other sponsors include Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), and committee members Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), Arlen Specter (D-Pennsylvania), Chuck Schumer (D-New York), **** Durbin (D-Illinois), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota). Senators Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) are also co-sponsors.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/justice-department-piracy/
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Siren · Sep 20, 2010

A few interesting comments in that link:

Interesting that we have so many real problems in the country, but appeasing corporations is #1. Itâ€™s going to be really amusing when the RIAA and MPAA finally make it impossible for anyone to illegally distribute music, and they find their sales are still in the toilet.
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Turning off DNS isnâ€™t going to do anything. People can still enter the IP address of say thepiratebay.org.
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Another matter in this story is however alarming. On what right should the US be allowed to control anything beyond itâ€™s borders? Seems to me some megalomaniacs in the Senate and in RIAA needs to be shown the door.
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Next up: congress tries to pass a bill that charges everyone, inside and outside The States, $7.95 per liter of their piss once it enters the sewers. Stay tuned.

GaijinPunch · Sep 20, 2010

The US Toying with shit outside the US: Can of worms.

EDIT: There's always IRC.

inspuration · Sep 20, 2010

fuck obama, his copyright policies are fucking retarded

ASSEMbler · Sep 21, 2010

As bad as it sounds, at least you can go to court vs some quasi-industry bullshit like the dmca takedown.

In other news, all sites are moved out of the usa and u.s. courts told to fuck off.

Vosse · Sep 21, 2010

ASSEMbler said: ↑

As bad as it sounds, at least you can go to court vs some quasi-industry bullshit like the dmca takedown.

In other news, all sites are moved out of the usa and u.s. courts told to fuck off.
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:clap:

I agree with the comments from the article.

What right does the US have going beyond it's borders? Just because it's multimedia that was created there?

WolverineDK · Sep 21, 2010

Well, the gallo report is going to be voted on the end of this week, and that is like a European version of this BULLSHIT law. So we are screwed either way.

Welcome to the future.. my thoughts are these then "fuck the future"

EvilWays · Sep 21, 2010

Guess they never heard of proxies...

WolverineDK · Sep 24, 2010

Anti-Pirates List Dead and Pre-Teen Artists as Petition Signatories

madhatter256 · Sep 24, 2010

We should tell Obama that Internet Piracy is too big to fail. Then he'll listen to us.

bob · Sep 24, 2010

madhatter256 said: ↑

We should tell Obama that Internet Piracy is too big to fail. Then he'll listen to us.
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hehe yea :lol: :thumbsup:

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