US Government Begins Global Internet Censorship Without Court Orders

[anex]

..... it is possible they proclaimed this.. as a scare tactic.. for people like WIKILEAKS who plan on revealing millions of the governments secrets on the internet..

p.s. seriously if people want to see a movie or listen to a CD .. buy it.. if you can afford the internet.. why cant you afford a movie or CD

Wikileaks is under a mass ddos attack right now. Try to visit the site... I am unable to.

The principle for a lot of people is watch or listen before buying. I can't tell you how much money piracy has saved me. I buy movies, music, and games... however I always try the product before I buy it.

EDIT: Apparently Wikileaks is supposed to drop those new US documents tomorrow. The Guardian, Der Spiegel and NYT have it. They said they will still run the story even if Wikileaks is still down... Here is a theory. The US gov is trying to shut down piracy websites (Mostly torrent sites) to stop the information from spreading... Ill be you $10

[Nemesis]

wait, they're stopping illegal activity, and people are upset?

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

wait, they're stopping illegal activity, and people are upset?

No, people are upset that it can be done with minimal, if any, oversight by the courts.

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

No, people are upset that it can be done with minimal, if any, oversight by the courts.

so there stopping people from criminal activity.. and people are upset.

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

so there stopping people from criminal activity.. and people are upset.

No. They're middle-men ensuring that private interest organisations can circumvent the courts. That's why people are upset. These organisations have lobbied the legislature to avoid having to deal with a judiciary system that often found their methods to be unlawful. Some of these sites are outlets for people committing felony copyright infringement, but others are not. Torrenting, for example, is not a crime. It's a tort handled as a civil matter.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

so there stopping people from criminal activity.. and people are upset.

i personally am upset. it's not the stopping criminal activity, but its the fact that they can o this for any reason whatsoever. plus, some of the sites were perfectly legal, like torrent-finder.

[Christmas]

i personally am upset. it's not the stopping criminal activity, but its the fact that they can o this for any reason whatsoever. plus, some of the sites were perfectly legal, like torrent-finder.

Don't torrent sites provide links to copyrighted content?

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

Don't torrent sites provide links to copyrighted content?

Nothing that a torrent site provides as part of serving torrents is copyrighted. Torrent-Finder itself merely links to these sites. It's sorta like shutting down Google for indexing sites that serve content that in some capacity could be used to commit civil offenses.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Don't torrent sites provide links to copyrighted content?

technically, torrents are just specially formatted text files that a tracker client interprets as instructions for where to go and connect to the actual torrent network. there is no copyright material in torrents.

[Tickle Me Emo]

wait, they're stopping illegal activity, and people are upset?

so there stopping people from criminal activity.. and people are upset.

If that's really all you see in this issue, you're retarded. I'm too tired to go into detail right now, but that's really all the time you deserve anyways.