I think the greatest concern is the fact that they're even having these discussions. Like Ceewan said, they will keep changing the form of legislation as a distraction till they complete their agenda.
The TCP/IP protocol that the net runs on is not financed by any one person, organization, corporation, or government, so who owns the net?
For those concerned, If their objective was to remove sites like this, why would anyone go after the nest when it gathers what they're looking for. I think it has little to do with copywrite infringement, and more to do with control over every aspect of your life, and what they want you to see. With all the decentralized peer to peer networks you can't stop piracy by simply blocking domains without breaking everything in it's path. Secondly, I believe most counterfeits sites are dynamically generated. If it's dynamic, then their promise to stop counterfeits for our protection is like chancing ghosts. ...Like they don't know all this already though?
So what is this really about?
Is it technically possible for the US government to remove sites completely from the internet?
I read an article on this bill which suggests that they would block sites on US hosting service providers, but how would removing sites entirely from the internet be technically possible?
Well there is no question there are other ways of getting sites up, but how many people are going to run peer to peer networks, or edit a hosts files to get around blocked domans, and the bill even talks about buying into merchant providers.
I don't want to speculate what anyone would do with such power, other than destroy the net, and possibly the economy, as I can only imagine the can of worms this opens for
backroom politics to play. Maybe they really mean well.
But if you look at whats happened with the health care bill in the US, the concept of redistributing of wealth, punishing the privet sector, and creating an underclass for easy votes (
by giving things away for free like trips to the zoo rather then food), does the question of what this is really about seems like a fair question?
Or on the other hand, if you look at how much money the US makes through it's pharmacy system by selling extremely expensive meds to it's citizens, they say they want to stop all these black market sites who sell dangerous meds. There is a point their, maybe those sites could be harmful to your health. but is it really about your health, or how much businesses the gov looses to these sites? Point being, there are cures for sicknesses in other country's that never make it to the US, why? I think everyone knows that a cure would mean less money to the pharmacy's. ...But who knows, it's all speculation in the end.
