Breaking: Newly Obtained Homeland Security Documents Reveal Radical Shift In Internet PolicyFIGHT BACK: Internet user arrested for linking to other websites.
Brian McCarthy ran a website,
channelsurfing.net, that linked to various sites where you could watch online streams of TV shows and sports networks. A couple months ago, the government seized his domain name and on Friday they
arrested him and charged him with criminal copyright infringement -- punishable by five years in prison.
We just obtained a copy of the complaint (below) that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made against him --
and they don't even allege that he made a copy of anything! Just that he ran what they call a "linking website" which linked to various sites with copyrighted material. Under that sort of thinking,
everyone who's sent around a link to a copyrighted YouTube video is a criminal.
This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE -- a steamship-era department that's proving once again that it doesn't understand the Internet. We need to push back -- and fast -- before they try to lock up more Americans.
PETITION TO JANET NAPOLITANO, DIRECTOR OF HOMELAND SECURITY, AND JOHN MORTON, DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT: There's nothing wrong or illegal about posting a link to a website. This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE: You need to drop the charges against Brian McCarthy right away.
Just sign on by filling out the form at right -- we'll deliver the petition to DHS and ICE later this month.
Comments
UPRISING!!
that right there says they are combining
forces to keep your mind plugged in
to what they want you to read, watch, and listen.
If the internet got shut down then we will have to go back to old-school piracy. Pass round CDs and other media. I did it to great effect right up to last year with mates.
QFT. Everyone needs their own planet.
/thread.
The closing of innocent sites & threats of jail for their owners are more an implementation of fear. Leaders have been ruling with fear for hundreds of years and today is no different.
Fuck the System!
What gives you the idea that the government (a small handful of people) have the right/freedom to tell everyone else how to live?
Yeah, you're right. The government runs Facebook, as it's basically a giant database of information on everybody. Fuckers :mad:
If I owned a facebook account I may as well ring my local police station whenever I wanna go out & tell them where I'm going and what time I'll be home. It's a sad but true reality .
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Normally I would discourage the posting of single image or video in this section without some commentary relating to the OP on the part of the user. But this was spot on the money, nice video which pretty much says it all about FB. :thumbsup: