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Originally Posted by nextri
That's the problem, the law specifically gives them IMMUNITY from being prosecuted for wrongfully shutting down a site.
So if any of these companies, ad networks, advertisers, search engines, registrars or registries don't want to pay the extra cost of actually investigating if the claim is true or not, they can just shut it down and be done with it. It's easier for godaddy to just block your domain rather than actually look into whether or not you're actually doing something wrong. And how are they gonna know anyways whether you have a license for everything on your site?
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How about if the tubes place watermarks on all of their licensed material with words to the effect that the content was used with the explicit permission of xyz.com? This way, if they really do have permission, the law could perhaps be crafted to provide those posting such claims additional time to establish as much. And, in the event that they then can't, they will have shown themselves to be bald faced liars and no one, aside from gideon, will shed even a single tear when the all out shit storm hits them.
The idea here is to protect the truly innocent from bogus claims while hastening the demise of the most blatent offenders.
Note: Given the nature of file lockers and file sharing forums, this "SOPA lite" option wouldn't work with them.
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