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The Latest Threat to Free Speech: Censorship by a High Court

Yesterday, I told you about Sex.com becoming the Pinterest of Pornography. I wrote about that to illustrate the way social networking, done correctly, operates, and acknowledged that I talk about that topic pretty often.

I also talk about Piracy quite a bit. Media Piracy, be it movies, music, books, or software, is an incredibly complicated subject, and one that has many ways to link into a conversation about business change. This week, The High Court in The United Kingdom took aim at Piracy, and in mid-2012 I’m both amazed and a little frightened that they’ve pursued the particular action they’re attempting.

Why The EFF Has it Right—And MegaUpload Was Wronged

Let’s talk law. Specifically, let’s talk about copyright law, and due process.

Disclosure: I am not an attorney. But I know a thing or three about copyrights, patents, and trademarks, consult on intellectual property issues, and as a business person with several decades of experience reading and often writing contracts feel pretty comfortable talking about what “Due Process” means. Short definition: you’re supposed to get a chance to work through the legal system when someone has a problem with something you’ve done.

Carpathia: MegaUpload’s Smart/Evil Hosting Partner

This is a story about customer service. Or maybe it’s about file sharing, copyright infringement, due process, and piracy.

Or maybe it’s just about being very, very careful with the way you store your data.

On February 2, 2012, Carpathia, the company that was hosting data for MegaUpload before their very large collection of information was taken off-line by a United States Justice Department action,  will be free to delete MegaUpload’s data.

And oh boy, are you glad you aren’t the folks at Carpathia who have to decide whether or not to do that.

Due Process? Not How US Congress Sees the Internet

How’d you like to live in a country where you had no right to due process under the law? You know: a place where some government official decides you’re naughty and punishes you on the spot, with no chance to defend yourself.

A place like: The United States?

It’s not a law yet, and given how little time there is left in the current session of Congress this bill, like this one, almost certainly won’t become a law, but the United States Senate has before it a bill that would make it possible for your web site to be taken off line immediately if the US Attorney General decided you were participating in “infringing activities”.





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