straight from demonoid:


In the United States, a new law proposal called The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced last week, and there will be a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday.

If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China and Iran do, with the difference that the sites they decide to censor will be completely removed from the internet and not just in the US.

Please see the following article from the Huffington Post for more information.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-seg ... 39836.html

And if you are a US citizen, please take the time to sign this petition
http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/

I knew about this stuff months ago, Alex Jones predicted it same as he did 9/11.

petition signed.

i know alex jones predicted it, now sign the petition.

Signed. Shared on Facebook.

A lot of these people will definitely be out of office come November, lets hope the rest of the cosponsors get the message.

Also, this doesn't have that big of an impact (as of now) since it only requires ISPs to block the domain name resolution (DNS) of the blacklisted sites -- using some alternative DNS system is always possible -- maybe OpenDNS

Also, this.

Petition signed.

Yeah read some stuff about this a bit ago, Demonoid had it posted. I just kinda sit around and know even it does go into effect the people will morph around it or find ways to break through it. I don't worry much.

Would this proposed law even be constitutional? Restricting people's rights without a court order?

jet, there are A LOT of laws that are unconstitutional and get signed into law every year. the health care bill is one recent example, which requires citizens to purchase a good/service.

There is a concept going around that would require legislators to specifically outline how every new bill is constitutional -- it will most likely never pass -- like the "audit the fed" bill.

I actually support the audit the fed bill, I also support legislation only being passed after every item in the bill has been verified and read by all of the voting members.

They can't remove sites from the internet only those's within the US. So this won't effect us Canadians at all, woohoo pirate all we want!

exactly. Someone will always find a way around it.

I wouldn't count yourself to safe...

Example: Look at the ISOhunt case.

I think you guys clearly need to start doing this when you pass a government official

Arm is too high

That is raising hand to say something, to salute you gotta aim the tip of the fingers closer toward forehead level and outward.

ISOHunt: Founded January 2003
Sued on: February 28, 2006
Moved server to Canada on: January 2007

If your servers are in the US, you'll be subject to US copyright law

signed...... nobody better stop me from the art of bootleggin