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URGENT ACTION NEEDED: New Internet Blacklist Bill Could Shut Down Twitter And Youtube!

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The case for piracy

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Righthaven ruling by judge ''stunning rebuke'' of copyright troll, attorney says

"In the end, Righthaven simply didn't have a legal leg to stand on. Having... more

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Pirate Party German Victory! interview with political director Marina Weisband

the upstart new movement in Europe is gathering steam - and this interview features... more

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RE/Mixed Media Festival 2011 - October 21st-23rd, 2011 DUMBO in Brooklyn

The Remixed Media Festival is open for submissions! Submit your art, video,... more

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Why Netflix Had To Raise It’s Prices

Last week, after movie streaming service Netflix raised its prices by 60%, the... more

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Big Brother turns out to not be Government but America's Largest Phone Companies

Right on the heels of a rash of copyright lawsuits, comes the news that your Internet... more

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The Copyright Trolls of WeFightP.r.I.v.ACY develop fool proof anti-piracy software. It lets them hijack your webcam so they can watch you fapping

Jorge Bronze of wefightprivacy.com has been spending the last six months trying to pursue tens of thousands of fappers who don't believe that paying a chick to suck you off in a hotel room qualifies as "intellectual property."
Jorge argues that "these thieves with their sense of entitlement are destroying the future of this country and its future generations. Would you want to live in a world in which young teens are denied the opportunity to watch a 18 year old female get quadrupled penetrated and defecated on?"
Jorge does not include images of the cinematic brilliance of films like "Plunder My Booty 15" or "Ass Ram for Cash" on his websites. Instead he posts random mundane paintings by douchebags artists who were born too early to copyright their work.
Jorge has recently been having problems when it comes to proving that an IP address can be used to identify an infringer. Judges have told him that simply getting the location of an internet connection does not prove that the account owner engaged in illegal activity.
To get around this " so ridiculously obvious that you would have to be a POS opportunistic scumbag lawyer to try to exploit" issue, Mr. Bronze and his incestuous brother team of Bittorrent trackers has developed a software known as "Gotcha Bitch 1.0".
Jorge says the software is intended guarantee that his firm has located copyright infringers. He explains:

"While getting the contact info of an account holder will allow us to shame ad harass a person out of money, nothing expedites the process faster than sending a person a picture of him with his cock out."

Gotcha Bitch allows Wefightprivacy.com to take control of a suspected evil infringing fapper's webcam and to transmit messages directly to him.

The software is fool proof. "We try to get a picture of the cock. Every man knows exactly what his cock looks like. The second he sees the pics, he knows it's game over, man."

Despite being fool proof, wefightprivacy.com's software has not been able to completely avoid criticism.

Timmy Smitz, a 16 year old from Texas, was recently caught by the Gotcha Bitch Software. "I was sitting there having a good time stroking my junk, when suddenly a picture of Jorge Bronze popped up on my screen with a 'Gotcha Bitch' caption. I just curled into a ball and began crying all night...." Timmy is currently being treated for PTSD.

There have been even more serious consequences that have resulted from the use of the software. Bob Vagoo, a 79 year old from Cleveland was all hopped up on viagra and trying to enjoy the last fap of his life. Halfway through his viewing of "Dookiebooty 14", Mr. Vagoo was met with a "Gotcha Bitch" splash screen. Mr. Vagoo suffered a massive heart attack and was left a twisted, sweaty, naked mess.

When asked about Mr. Vagoo's death, Jorge could only say that "I didn't know him personally. Plus, I'm a lawyer, I just live for the paychecks."Jorge Bronze of wefightprivacy.com has been spending the last six months trying to... more

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Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony

Techdirt reports that Senate bill 978 – a bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes – may be used to prosecute people for embedding YouTube videos.
According to Mark Masnick, if a website embeds a YouTube video that is determined to have infringed on copyright and more than 10 people view it on that website, the owner or others associated with the website could face up to five years in prison.
Read Masnick’s article here. He explains how the new law would expand copyright violations from reproducing and distributing to performing – including streaming video over the internet.
As readers of Infowars.com know, many videos are removed from YouTube after copyright owners complain about infringement. This happens with thousands of news clips every year. Most people are familiar with the now common black box replacing a video that says the video has been removed for copyright reasons.
If enacted, this law will go one step further and turn people who embed a copyrighted video into criminals. It will also set the stage to criminalize linking to copyrighted information — like corporate media news sources — and shut down the alternative media.
It will also make people think twice about putting up all kinds of videos, from news reports to clips from documentaries and other educational material.
It does not take a vivid imagination to realize the political implications of this legislation.
Here is the full text of the bill.
Addendum
It should be noted that outlawing certain activities on the internet is instrumental to the Obama administration’s copyright policy.
In March, the White House’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, provided Congress with a White Paper (available for download here), outlining a series of the Obama Administration’s recommended legislative changes to combat online piracy and counterfeiting.
“Significantly, the recommendations include making it a felony offense to stream infringing content and giving Federal agencies wiretapping authority to obtain evidence of criminal copyright and trademark offenses,” David Makarewicz wrote for Infowars.com on March 17.
Obama’s emerging policy on streaming media dovetails with his administration’s effort to seize web domains. The Department of Homeland Security now arrests web site operators under its “In Our Sites” program.
“On the pretext of protecting intellectual property from infringement and counterfeiters, it’s about fast-tracking Internet distribution and information technology rules to subvert Net Neutrality, privacy, and personal freedoms – global rules for unrestricted free trade, undermining universal, affordable free access, civil liberties, legitimate commerce, and the right of sovereign nations to go their own way,” writes Steve Lendman.
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In addition to outlawing video streaming, new legislation “would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon (ISPs), including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information. The proposal [the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement] also bans ‘anti-circumvention measures which may affect online anonymity systems and would likely outlaw multi-region CD/DVD players. The proposal also specifies a plan to encourage developing nations to accept the legal regime,” imposing consequences for opting out,” a Wikileaks document disclosed in May of 2008.
So-called “secondary copyright liability” will be used to criminalize what is now routine behavior on the internet. It will also be used by the political establishment to eliminate the internet activity – primarily in the form of alternative media – of those who oppose what is shaping up to be a totalitarian state.

http://www.infowars.com/embedding-youtube-videos-may-soon-be-a-felony/Techdirt reports that Senate bill 978 – a bill to amend the criminal penalty... more

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Shhhhh! Don't Save the Internet ... from the Blacklist?!

Demand Progress has the details for you Act now this an EMERGENCY for Freedom of... more

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Pirates Aren't Always in the Form of Johnny Depp

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"Family Man": A reflection on the early days, when morals meant more than money to Copyright Troll John Steele(includes his own words)

(public domain pic, Mr. Steele) I was recently reading the Arstechnica article:... more

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YouTube Educating Copyright Violaters

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Divided loyalties or attempted frame job? Hidden link on the website of a company(Amateur Allure) that is suing for copyright infringement guides visitors to free full length adult videos

(Digiprotect, a German Copyright Trolling company,admitted to intentionally uploading copyrighted material to Bittorrent in order to catch(entrap) infringers, so a frame job is a real possibility
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090831/0250256053.shtml)

Hard Drive Productions, the owners of Amatuer Allure, is currently a client of copyright troll John Steele. The company is using his services to attempt to demand thousands of dollars out of unsuspecting internet users for allegedly downloading one of their movies via Bittorrent. Since the company is supposedly taking a stand against porn piracy, I was shocked to come across a link on their main website that guides people to free adult content.

The link, screen captured in the included image, is still live at the time of this post. However, for some reason, there does not appear to be a direct link to the site on the company's page. Rather, I had to check the files on the server to find it

Highlights from the page(in case it goes down):

Sinpub Free Porn link in the lower left corner has been manually reset to redirect back to the Amateur Allure's adult link exchange. Sinpub recently changed its name to Wankerhut and contains streaming videos that max out at a length of 7 min 30 sec

The Free Bukkake tube link used to go to xget. Xget suddenly changed from being an adult content site that allowed one to watch and download free streaming content to a site that apparently points to checkdent.com. So it went from providing free full length videos, to a site about dentists

The Free B Amateurs link appears to be for an incomplete website. The page is filled with listings for "Test url blah blah blah"

The Free porn videos link towards the middle of the page links to sex2ube, which is a video sharing website that allows people to upload and download entire movies. Not sure why a company involved in copyright trolling would want to direct people to a video sharing site.

Lastly, the All Amateur Blog link is still active and contains a massive list of free full length video sites at the bottom.

If one follows any of the "friendly links" on the All Amateur Blog link one can find an endless supply of free full length streaming, though potentially copyrighted, adult content. I am attempting to determine why a company involved with the likes of copyright troll John Steele maintains an "adult link exchange". Isn't the whole point of the copyright troll's campaign to destroy the free porn market? Or is he merely interested in calling up random companies, offering his services for free, and then blackmailing as many people as humanly possible?

Hopefully this article doesn't get killed by Mr. Steele's clients(it would be the 4th to be flagged to death) because I sincerely believe the link in the image is something both the judge and jury for Mr. Steele's case would find to be very intriguing.(Digiprotect, a German Copyright Trolling company,admitted to intentionally uploading... more

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Embedding Videos Gets You Arrested

Don't share a copyrighted video on your site, because now you can get arrested. Brian McCarthy is a 32-year-old Texan who ran channelsurfing.net until he was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week. Channelsurfing.net let users watch videos that were not supposed to be free, including sports and pay-per-view events. By embedding these videos on his site, Brian only linked to someone else's copy of the vid, he did not possess the file anywhere on his web space. He did allow users to watch pirated videos without leaving his website. Brian made $90,000+ a year from advertisers on his site.

By doing this, Brian managed to upset the UFC, WWE, NFL, NBA, and NHL who were supposed to be charging to broadcast these events. He now faces up to 5 years in prison.

Should Brian be going to jail? Copyright infringement is normally a civil offense, NOT criminal. But Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is claiming it's criminal this time because Brian profited off the distribution of illegal content. This is a stretch in the power of ICE, because no one has been arrested who didn't actually host pirated content before.

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If Brian goes to jail, its likely more people will get arrested or fined for embedding copyrighted videos on their site. Techdirt.com writes, "it should worry almost anyone who has a website and has ever embedded videos. I have, for example, frequently embedded YouTube videos on this site -- and some of those videos might have been infringing. On top of that, I make some money from advertising on this site. Does that mean I now face criminal liability? I certainly hope not, but that seems to be the incredibly chilling message that ICE is sending. It immediately makes me question if I can ever embed another video without first getting explicit permission from the copyright holder."

While we all laugh at the fact that "ICE" is "chilling," let's think about this. The internet makes it very easy to share information. Do we want to change that by arresting people for sharing certain kinds of information? Internet censorship is already on the rise. Countries and schools can block any site deemed offensive or inappropriate. If we don't stop censorship at some point, how soon until we are all forced to "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil?"Don't share a copyrighted video on your site, because now you can get arrested.... more

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Do we still have rights? Copyright Troll John Steele used a procedural gimmick to silence the voices of the accused. (Technically, it was legal)

Over the past several months, Chicago family law attorney turned porn "pirate... more

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Share a YouTube Video? Go to Jail | Demand Progress

slippery slope meet rollar skating to hell

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Prosecutors drop 'piracy' case against film sharing website

The Crown Prosecution Service told Bristol Crown Court today it would not proceed with... more

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Lets Talk about Copyright in the Music and Movie Industry

Hello Viewers. First let me start by saying copyright is a interesting situation... more

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MPAA threatens to disconnect Google from the Internet

Over the last few months, Google has received more than 100 copyright infringement... more

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