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....The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is among the most draconian laws ever considered to combat digital piracy, and contains what some have called the “nuclear option,” which would essentially allow the Attorney General to turn suspected websites “off.”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3804:" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">COICA</a> is the latest effort by Hollywood, the recording industry and the big media companies to stem the tidal wave of internet file sharing that has upended those industries and, they claim, cost them tens of billions of dollars over the last decade.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The content companies have tried <a href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2004/04/63263" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">suing college students</a>. They’ve tried <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/open-source-napster-resurrected/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">suing internet startups</a>. Now they want the federal government to act as their private security agents, policing the internet for suspected pirates before making them walk the digital plank.... </p>
<p></p><p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major record labels, <a href="http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/09/groups-urge-hearing-on-online.php" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">praised Leahy for his work</a>, “to insure [sic] that the Internet is a civilized medium instead of a lawless one where foreign sites that put Americans at risk are allowed to flourish.”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Over the course of his career, Leahy has received $885,216 from the TV, movie and music industries,<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=C&cid=N00009918&newMem=N" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">according to the Center for Responsive Politics</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/coica-web-censorship-bill/2/">http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/coica-web-censorship-bill/2/</a></p>
</span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Alex Gakuru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gakuru@gmail.com">gakuru@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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US rushes through bill to protect movie and music industries</h1><div><div style="font-size:1.4em;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><span style="color:rgb(219, 25, 0);font-weight:bold"></span>Can shut down websites even when there is no criminal activity</div>
<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin-top:5px">By <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/flame_author/1899195/rushes-protect-movie-music-industry" style="text-decoration:none;font-size:1.1em;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Nick Farrell</a></div>
<div style="font-size:1.1em;margin-top:4px;color:rgb(166, 166, 166);float:left">Fri Nov 19 2010, 08:47</div></div></div></div><div style="clear:both"><div style="padding-top:10px;clear:both;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;font-size:1.3em">
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.32em"><strong>FACED WITH WARS</strong>, economic crisis and unemployment, the US Senate Judiciary Committee rushed into action to pass a law that will give the US Attorney General the right to shut down websites even if they are doing nothing illegal.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.32em">The move appears to have been rushed through at the behest of Washington's chums in the music and film industries, so it is fairly likely that it is going to be over the top.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.32em">In this case an ISP will have to comply with a court order bought by a music or film company and shut down a website if copyright infringement is deemed "central to the activity" of the site.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.32em">The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) allows the Attorney General to turn suspected websites off if he is asked and this will effectively turn the entire US judiciary into a free police force for two US industries.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.32em">The music and film industries, which came up with the idea, are fed up with wasting money with expensive court cases that rarely go anywhere. Now the law means that all they have to do is pop down to their local police station, name a website where they claim peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing is taking place and the forces of law and order will take over.</p>
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</div></div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/19 Anne-Rachel Inné <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annerachel@gmail.com" target="_blank">annerachel@gmail.com</a>></span><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Pour ceux qui veulent comprendre COICA en Francais: <a href="http://domaine.blogspot.com/2010/11/coica-quoi-ca.html" target="_blank">http://domaine.blogspot.com/2010/11/coica-quoi-ca.html</a><br>bon week end<br>ar<br><br>
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Alex Gakuru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gakuru@gmail.com" target="_blank">gakuru@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>Just to draw you attention to COICA proposals.</div><div><br></div><<a href="http://www.komaitis.org/1/post/2010/11/individuals-and-civil-society-send-letter-to-senator-p-leahy-on-s3804.html" target="_blank">http://www.komaitis.org/1/post/2010/11/individuals-and-civil-society-send-letter-to-senator-p-leahy-on-s3804.html</a>>
<div><br></div><div>kindly,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Alex</div>
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