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SWEEP and PEEP is the legislative proposals that the entire Internet industry rages on, and which, according to Google's founders Sergey Brin can place the U.S. on par with the world's worst dictatorships. Yet they seem to have a good chance of being voted in the U.S. in early 2012. Follow the horror film.
The legislative proposals SWEEP and PIPE means that it would suffice
that in any one place in New Teknik.se, maybe just in a reader comment,
find a link to pirated material, to the U.S. government to force
Internet companies to block all Nyteknik.se for U.S. users.
Within five days. Without trial.
Anyone who thinks this sounds drastic is not alone. Since the
legislative proposals presented during the autumn, the entire Internet
industry opposition brought.
On November 15, nine internet giants - including Facebook, Google, eBay,
AOL, Mozilla and Twitter - a letter to American congressmen with sharp
criticism of the proposal.
The letter points out the companies that they agree with the draft
legislation the basic idea - to try to stop foreign Web sites with such
pirated material ("rogue websites"), but the formulation of legislative
proposals, rather than risk becoming a serious threat to the Internet
industry, and in addition to security on the Internet .
The threat to the industry is that it takes so little to block a website
and you're worried that it leads to abuse of the copyright page. A
single link to an entire site is sufficient for the U.S. Attorney to get
a court order forcing Internet companies to block the entire site.
That is why Internet companies worried that the draft laws undermines
the framework contained in the Copyright Act Digital Millennium
Copyright Act that provides protection - a "safe harbor" for the
internet business as long as the effort to try to get away uploaded
pirated material.
Since the U.S. can not close down foreign sites, the under proposals
blocked by the site's domain name - for example Nyteknik.se -
disconnected from the IP number is the actual address of the site.
This is managed through the manipulation of the so-called DNS system that translates domain names into IP numbers.
This is also the vulnerability. Since a long time to develop DNSSEC
protocol that will ensure an unbroken chain from Web sites to users so
that fraudsters will not be able to provide users with fake Web sites
such as online banking. According to several experts SWEEP is
incompatible with DNSSEC.
But the letter from the Internet giants are just the tip of the
iceberg. A number of Internet organizations, such as the Internet
Society , agrees with the criticism. Many of them come together behind
the common web site Netcoalition.com .
In addition, several online profiles stated in person, including Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, who wrote in a blog entry :
"While I support the goal of limiting copyright infringement (which I do
not believe that these proposals would do), I am shocked that our
legislators would consider such measures as would put us at the same
level as the most repressive nations in the world."
Even the European Parliament in a resolution on transatlantic relations,
has emphasized "the need to protect the integrity of the global
Internet and the free communication by refraining from unilateral steps
to revoke the IP addresses or domain names."
But none of this is to prevent legislative law proponents, with SWEEP's
author, Rep. Lamar Smith in the lead, to drive to a vote.
They have strong support especially from the Motion Picture Association
of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),
which bills sees a chance to finally stop online sites such as
Piratebay.org, still open almost three years after the first prison
sentence against its founder.
Shocker will enter a decisive phase in early 2012 as the legislation is handled with a sort of quick action. PIPA - Protect IP Act - which is run in U.S. Senate, is scheduled to undergo a vote on 24 January. SWEEP - Stop Online Piracy Act - which, rather than be handled by the House of Representatives and is considered more significant than PIPA, lies in the current situation somewhat in the future, even if Lamar Smith was pushing hard for a vote in mid-December but then failed. And both bills considered to have a good chance of winning votes. According to the RIAA, only one percent of the bills that presnterats in the Senate during the same period is equally popular with the members of PIPA. |
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