We were told by the bourgeois media that the poor little giant entertainment corporation were losing hundreds of billions of dollars (a bullshit lie, obviously) because foreign websites were "stealing" their content and were beyond reach of U.S. law.
At exactly the same time, the U.S. got New Zealand to arrest the proprietor of file-sharing site Megaupload and his top assistants. New Zealand also seized his property, cars, and cash. The U.S. seized his website, even though it's based in Hong Kong.
As part of the trial and conviction by the media, we were told internal emails proved their guilt. (No explanation of how the U.S. got hold of those emails.)
So why, exactly, are even more draconian laws needed? Bad enough that copyright infringement is no longer a civil matter when the complainants are giant corporations. (See if you can get the FBI to arrest anyone for violating your copyright!) Bad enough that websites are destroyed and assets seized before any trial. Now the Disneys and News Corps of the world want the power to shut websites on their mere say-so. They want to be able to force search engines and advertisers and banks and paypal etc. to blacklist websites on demand, without a trial.
The existing laws are already far to repressive and give dominant corporations too much power.
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