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Overkill on Internet Piracy

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Overkill on Internet Piracy

Posted at 08:30 AM ET, 12/12/2011

By Jennifer Rubin

Washington Post

Post Opinions

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/
overkill-on-internet-piracy/2011/12/11/gIQA9TK6nO_blog.html

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http://tinyurl.com/bnj8l5p

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Over the weekend, First Amendment impresario Floyd Abrams addressed two
controversial Internet piracy bills, the Senates Protect IP Act (PIPA) and
the House version, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). He argued that the
bill, designed to stop Internet theft of intellectual property, has been
denounced by critics for setting up ?walled gardens patrolled by
government censors. Or derided as imparting major features of Chinas Great
Firewall to America. And accused of being potentially politically
repressive.? He contends, This is not serious criticism. The proposition
that efforts to enforce the Copyright Act on the Internet amount to some
sort of censorship, let alone Chinese-level censorship, is not merely
fanciful. It trivializes the pain inflicted by actual censorship that
occurs in repressive states throughout the world. Chinese dissidents do
not yearn for freedom in order to download pirated movies.

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I dont quarrel with his assertion that it is hysterical to regard
enforcement of libel and copyright infringement on the Internet as the
beginning of a totalitarian state. But he misses the real point of
sober-minded critics: The bill is unnecessarily overbroad and a formula
for a host of undesirable and unintended consequences.

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ABC News reported last month on the overbroad nature of the remedies that
would be available:

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Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, said the bills would overdo it
giving copyright holders and government the power to cut off Web sites
unreasonably. They could be shut down, and search engines such as Google,
Bing and Yahoo could be stopped from linking to them.

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The solutions are draconian, Schmidt said Tuesday at the MIT Sloan School
of Management. Theres a bill that would require ISPs [Internet service
providers] to remove URLs from the Web, which is also known as censorship
last time I checked.

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Harvard law professor and Supreme Court advocate Laurence Tribe (whom I
dont always agree with but who takes the Bill of Rights quite seriously
and was instrumental in developing the jurisprudence that confirmed the
Second Amendment is an individual right) has submitted a memo detailing
the multiple ways in which SOPA runs afoul of the First Amendment.

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THE STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT (SOPA) VIOLATES THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Laurence H. Tribe*

http://www.scribd.com/doc/75153093/Tribe-Legis-Memo-on-SOPA-12-6-11-1

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Nov 16, 2011 6:03pm

SOPA: Internet Piracy Bill Criticized as Internet Censorship

ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/11/
sopa-internet-piracy-bill-criticized-as-internet-censorship/

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The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.

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