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Originally Posted by Lemurion
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.
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Agreed.
Our ancestors (parents and grand parents) fought a war 70 years ago to ensure the totalitarian actions that are proposed by such laws never became a reality.
It is a sad day indeed where a small group of corporations, who refuse to make any changes to their outdated business and distribution models, attempt to force the world at large to accept these said same business models.
The world has moved on and they have been left behind.