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Originally Posted by HarryT
Blocking access to sites which are flagrant pirate sites is not something new. British courts already have (and use) the power to order ISPs to block access to such sites. Eg, the "Newzbin" site, which collates links to pirated content on Usenet newsgroups, is blocked by several major British ISPs. Blocking criminal sites is not censorship; it's justice.
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Doesn't Britian also have cameras practically everywhere? No offense, but your government scares me sometimes.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Translation: Sites which openly host copyright infringing material under a "disclaimer" that "we aren't responsible for what our wicked users do" should be allowed to continue getting away with it. Sorry: your site; your responsibility. MR doesn't try to hide behind such a blanket disclaimer.
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MobileRead has a fairly moderate level of users. It's a lot harder and more costly for a site like Twitter or Wikipedia to actively monitor all user activity. Especially since the site does not even have to host the copyrighted material itself. Just linking to a completely separate site which happens to have such material is enough to be shut down or blocked under SOPA.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Translation: We think that people should be able to flout copyright law with impunity?
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I've seen countless of videos pulled that were clearly used under fair use. My point being that the media corporations themselves only follow copyright law when it works in their favor.