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Originally Posted by Tony1988
I dont think anyone who wants to get creative on the internet is going to be threatened by any anti piracy law. I must be missing something I guess. I was puzzled why Wikipedia, Google, Amazon etc. are so concerned. I think the only people entities that need to be concerned are those that are illegally hosting without permission copyrighted material for free use.(movie music, book files) I dont see how its messing with anyones personal freedom. Again I maybe I an missing something.
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The idea behind this law is for law enforcement to get inside the pirates' "reaction loop" so that they can take offending sites down before the pirates can shift servers. The problem is that the only way they can figure out to do this is to
ignore due process.
A site such as Youtube could be taken down because someone had uploaded a video of their child singing along to a copyrighted song on the radio. It trades the presumption of innocence for a presumption of guilt, eliminates the right to face your accuser, and basically puts the accused in a position where all their assets can be seized and frozen before they have an opportunity to answer the charges, let alone mount a defense.
It's a bad law.