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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Can anyone point out how a law to stop piracy is going to effect my freedom please.
No smart Alec replies. Just point out what in the law makes them bringing down piracy a threat to my freedom to publish and read the truth or grab products that are put out by the owners of licenses that allows them to do this?
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Your freedom will be limited in the way that you can no longer create any sort of social or interactive website. The law is directly preventing innovation on the internet, it creates censorship in that each and every website owner will need to moderate each and every user interaction, which is in fact impossible to do, so such websites can no longer exists. There can be no blog networks like wordpress.org because just one infringing blog can get the whole network closed down. How is that not limiting your freedom?
Answer this simple question:
Should facebook have to have moderators to moderate each and every status update, user comment and photo upload from their 700 million users?
Should youtube be forced to approve each and every one of the thousands of videos that gets uploaded every minute?
If your answer is no to these questions, then you can't approve of this bill, cause that is what they will need to do in order to still operate their sites without worrying about suddenly getting shut down, without having a say in the matter.
How are they suppose to be able to have enough moderators who even know if any of the content is infringing anyone's intellectual property? It is impossible, and the sites couldn't operate like today. Not to mention the websites would be useless if they couldn't have real time updates.
There should definitely be done things to fight piracy, but not in ways that can result in websites being taken down without due process. If they are going to make a law to target sites that are mainly distributing copyrighted material, they need to make it a lot more specific so it doesn't destroy the very basis of an open social interactive internet.