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US rushes through bill to protect movie and music industries</h1><div class="article_summary_left"><div class="article_summary" style="font-size: 1.4em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="red_highlighted_text" style="color: rgb(219, 25, 0); font-weight: bold; "></span>Can shut down websites even when there is no criminal activity</div>
<div class="article_author_name" 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; ">Nick Farrell</a></div>
<div class="article_posted_date" 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 class="contenttop" style="clear: both; "><div class="contenttop_text" 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">annerachel@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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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