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Except your wrong this law has nothing to do with a site like Wikileaks.
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Of course it has. Wikileaks hosts a bunch of material that isn't from the US government and is therefore theoretically protected by copyright.
Wikileaks makes the argument that it's fair use to publish the material this way.
In a world where an ISP can simple shut down the website when they suspect it of violating copyrights violations it might be easy to get Wikileaks blacklisted.
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I agree that it is a new law but I am still not seeing the subversion of due process. As far as I can tell this is still a process that requires the Attorney General to work with the court system to get things done.
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Like Brutha said it will probably go to some kind of i2p service. That would be a pretty satisfactory outcome for Hollywood. If they can turn the torrent sites into a trickle then they are basically getting what they want.
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I think the technical process of hardening software to work decentrally is that difficult.
Making it decentral would be enough. You don't even need the annoymity to evade this law.
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My understanding of past cases is that basically the ISPs have stood on the ground that they are like highways and you can't hold them responsible for bank robbers who might use their highway to get away.
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That's not really the situation Comcast is for example both an ISP and a party that doesn't want copyright violations to happen.
At the moment Comcast thinks it doesn't have the legal right to go around shutting websites down.
This bill is supposed to give comcast that right. That the point where due process gets removed.