Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA)

Summer-Time-Fun

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(COICA)
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http://margotbnews.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/new-internet-censorship-bill-introduced/

Taken from Demonoid


Newspost - Sep/27/2010
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.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-segal/stop-the-internet-blackli_b_739836.html



...Update, from EFF's website: the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed the scheduled markup of the Internet censorship bill — a fantastic outcome, given that the entertainment industry and their allies in Congress had hoped this bill would be quickly approved before the Senators went home for the October recess. Massive thanks to all who used the EFF Action Center to write to your Senators to oppose this bill.

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http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/49/4/44949023.pdf
 

spikier

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so, does this mean that there's a chance of akiba-online getting censored?.

please don't say yeah :scared:.
 

uk21

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Believe me my friends, when this is passed akiba-online and other sites like it will be censored or taken down, American content or not, if the server is in the USA.
It is only a matter of time, alot of other sites who host tv shows have be taken down already, in place of the website a nice FBI logo.:destroy:
It is a nice money making scheme for the Court's, so all us uploaded's better head for the hills!:runintears:
It is getting close to 2012 and they just want to control us all!:hypno:

uk21
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Ceewan

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Hmm, AO doesn't have American content, and most members aren't Americans.

That would sound like a logical argument. Censorship does not work like that though. The reason the First Amendment is so important is that it protects the peoples right to express themselves whether or not the current government approves or not. It is an article to protect citizens from unjust oppression. This proposed law is another attempt to degrade that protection.

Further, given the authority to shut down web-sites based on objectional content would be a serious precedent and threat to any web-site that offers P2P filesharing or even porn within the US jurisdiction of influence or authority. Governments are well known for their abuse of authority. The governments of Europe and North America are no exception to this fact.
 

Sergil

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First.. Excuse my language.. Those greedy little ****.

Now, well I think we can all say we saw this coming. I hope this law won't be passed as their jurisdiction should only be within America. Not the entire world. Besides, the war against piracy? Piracy will always prevail because the entertainment industry has been way to greedy. These people with power can't think of any other alternatives other than shut down sites and what not because their heads are in their pockets. Other than that, they just can't seem to accept that whatever they do.. There will always be piracy. It can only be limited but not stopped.

I'm not saying I support piracy 100%. I do to some extent however, piracy does add good accessibility to the less fortunate or people from 3rd world countries. All I'm saying is, there will always be piracy. Its just the way it is.
 

g0n

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Another step for the U.S. to slowly police the world.:sadomaso:
 

Trollbeater

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Is it technically possible for the US government to remove sites completely from the internet?

I read an article on this bill which suggests that they would block sites on US hosting service providers, but how would removing sites entirely from the internet be technically possible?

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Here is a link on the technical aspects of the bill. And it is not possible to completely remove a website from the internet. Not entirely.

http://www.techeye.net/internet/com...ment-and-counterfeits-act-riles-rights-groups
 

newsn

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Will this actually pass?
 

Ceewan

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In all fairness, (and you will not hear say anything like this often), something akin to this likely will pass eventually. The amount of money and political "clout" spent over the last several decades has been leading up to something like this. It is very possible that this is just a "haggle" stage ATM. That is to say that the proponents of this and similar bills are asking for more than they expect to get in order to force or entice compromises in their favor from neutral and oppossing parties. I think what really worries most people is what those compromises will actually be in the end. Personally I am rooting for a solid defeat of this bill and any other bills like it. I do not think that is entirely realistic yet one can still hope.
 

Summer-Time-Fun

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I think the greatest concern is the fact that they're even having these discussions. Like Ceewan said, they will keep changing the form of legislation as a distraction till they complete their agenda.

The TCP/IP protocol that the net runs on is not financed by any one person, organization, corporation, or government, so who owns the net?
For those concerned, If their objective was to remove sites like this, why would anyone go after the nest when it gathers what they're looking for. I think it has little to do with copywrite infringement, and more to do with control over every aspect of your life, and what they want you to see. With all the decentralized peer to peer networks you can't stop piracy by simply blocking domains without breaking everything in it's path. Secondly, I believe most counterfeits sites are dynamically generated. If it's dynamic, then their promise to stop counterfeits for our protection is like chancing ghosts. ...Like they don't know all this already though?

So what is this really about?

Is it technically possible for the US government to remove sites completely from the internet?
I read an article on this bill which suggests that they would block sites on US hosting service providers, but how would removing sites entirely from the internet be technically possible?

Well there is no question there are other ways of getting sites up, but how many people are going to run peer to peer networks, or edit a hosts files to get around blocked domans, and the bill even talks about buying into merchant providers.

I don't want to speculate what anyone would do with such power, other than destroy the net, and possibly the economy, as I can only imagine the can of worms this opens for backroom politics to play. Maybe they really mean well.
But if you look at whats happened with the health care bill in the US, the concept of redistributing of wealth, punishing the privet sector, and creating an underclass for easy votes (by giving things away for free like trips to the zoo rather then food), does the question of what this is really about seems like a fair question?
Or on the other hand, if you look at how much money the US makes through it's pharmacy system by selling extremely expensive meds to it's citizens, they say they want to stop all these black market sites who sell dangerous meds. There is a point their, maybe those sites could be harmful to your health. but is it really about your health, or how much businesses the gov looses to these sites? Point being, there are cures for sicknesses in other country's that never make it to the US, why? I think everyone knows that a cure would mean less money to the pharmacy's. ...But who knows, it's all speculation in the end.
 

chrisfallout

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Is it technically possible for the US government to remove sites completely from the internet?

I read an article on this bill which suggests that they would block sites on US hosting service providers, but how would removing sites entirely from the internet be technically possible?

Edit:
Here is a link on the technical aspects of the bill. And it is not possible to completely remove a website from the internet. Not entirely.

http://www.techeye.net/internet/com...ment-and-counterfeits-act-riles-rights-groups

no they don't but will have what uk or eurpean markets have they will banded that context from being used in usa. why is i get F1 yahoo news in usa but can not play any media from there sit it blocks usa or other parts of world they can band context from being use in usa by make not read able.
 
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This is the biggest bullshit bill I've ever heard of.
It basically destroys the internet as we know it and puts the US government as some untouchable godlike entity over humanity's freedom of expression. If this passes, it would be an outrage.:scared: