Wednesday July 6th, 2011 08:01:54 PM U.S. Central Standard Time Criminal IP Theft To give you an idea of how absurd the Google paid-for blogosphere has become, here we insert the term "Stolen Credit Card Numbers" in the place of "Websites Dedicated to Copyright Infringement and Intellectual Property" in this recent advertorial sent to Congress.
-Our Edited Excerpt
"We, the undersigned law professors who teach and write about [Stolen Credit Card Numbers] and Internet law, strongly urge the members of Congress to reject the PROTECT IP Act (the “Act”). Although the problems the Act attempts to address – [Stolen Credit Card Numbers] – are serious ones presenting new and difficult enforcement challenges, the approach taken in the Act has grave constitutional infirmities, potentially dangerous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system, and will undermine United States foreign policy and strong support for free expression on the Internet around the world.
The Act would allow the government to break the Internet addressing system. It requires Internet service providers and operators of Internet name servers, to refuse to recognize Internet domains that a court considers [“Dedicated to Stealing Credit Card Numbers.”] But rather than wait until a web site is actually judged ["Dedicated to Stealing Credit Card Numbers"] before imposing the equivalent of an Internet death penalty, the Act would allow courts to order any Internet service provider to stop recognizing the site even on a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction issued the same day the complaint is filed. Courts could issue such an order even if the owner of that domain name was never given notice that a case against it had been filed at all.
The Act goes still further. It requires credit card providers, advertisers, and search engines to refuse to deal with the owners of sites Dedicated to [Stealing Credit Card Numbers]. For example, search engines are required to “(i) remove or disable access to the Internet site associated with the domain name set forth in the court order, or (ii) not serve a hypertext link to such Internet sites.” In the case of credit card companies and advertisers, they must stop doing business not only with sites the government has chosen to sue but any site that a private owner of a [Credit Card Number] claims is stolen. Giving this enormous new power not just to the government but to holders of [credit cards] would not only disrupt the operations of the website allegedly [Selling Stolen Credit Card Numbers] without a final judgement of wrongdoing, but would make it extraordinarily difficult for advertisers and credit card companies to do business on the Internet."
A link to the original can be found here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/59241037/PROTECT-IP-Letter-Final
Why don't we just get rid of the Digital Millennium Act (DMCA) Safe Harbors? The legions of criminals that have been enabled by the Safe Harbors and supported financially by Google et al would disappear in a nano second at the swords of civil litigation. All of this is financially driven by advertising. Make no mistake, Google et al wants the government not only to give it Safe Harbor from prosecution for enabling and benefitting financially from its serial abuse and theft of yours and my intellectual property, but it wants the government to continue, through the DMCA Safe Harbors to enable the compulsory, rate-less, perpetual, irrevocable license of yours and my intellectual property it has no right to in the name of free speech and enabling innovativeness. To the detriment of who? The entire Nation.
Some how child pornography, banking and particularly credit card trafficking is to be dealt with differently than stolen intellectual property by those who are on Google's advertorial payroll. Today, within our judicial system, intellectual property owners must contend with a Rube Goldberg workaround that has enabled the titans of the internet to rake in billions at the cost of intellectual property owners. As for the Rube Goldberg work around, look at where we are here. Let's take a moment here to walk you through what it would take to get your stolen credit card number off a criminal website if the same existing law applied (i.e. - The DMCA).
You send a notice to the website, who clearly has a million stolen credit card numbers on it for sale, to remove your credit card number. Oh, but problem one occurs. They have no email address because they are in Beijing, China. So then, you send a notice to Google to remove the site from search because they are returning fifty pages of search results pointing to the website that is selling the stolen credit cards. After a month, Google sends you a notice back saying they removed only the precise page that included only your credit card number. The criminal website then puts your credit card number on ten thousand other pages and then syndicates your credit card number to ten thousand other websites. And then, here is the real act of patriotism, Google is the Advertising Network on the the criminal website promoting and monetizing the sale of your credit card number. And to add insult to injury, in Google search results (where the single link to your stolen credit card number existed), they provide a link directly to the site where the credit card numbers exists, claiming that the link has been removed due to an alleged claim of criminal activity, defeating the entire process.
Google et al will surely refute this with many more paid advertorials. But, our parent company MiMTiD Corp., strategically sends out thousands of these notices daily under the same circumstances for our intellectual property and the intellectual property of others and we have the data and we are sharing it with Congress; possibly why Senator Wyden is apparently one against the clear majority. And, for lawmakers who thankfully support Protect IP (PIPA), you need only ask one question of the legions of Google lobbyists; "Tell me how this is different than stolen credit card numbers."
Good luck criminals. You are going to need it.
David Wallace Cox -The Chilling Report
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