Senate Bill Gives Feds Power to Order Blacklisting of Piracy Sites

[Mr Mannn]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/protect-act/
Senate Bill Gives Feds Power to Order Blacklisting of Piracy Sites

Senate antipiracy legislation introduced Thursday would dramatically increase the government’s legal power to disrupt and shutter websites “dedicated to infringing activities.”

A major feature of the Protect IP Act, introduced by 11 senators of all stripes, would grant the government the authority to bring lawsuits against these websites, and obtain court orders requiring search engines like Google to stop displaying links to them.

There's More at the link.

Call me a skeptic, but I doubt there is any real concern or driving desire to protect copyrighted material. 
This is just a call for Democrat operatives to post copyrighted material on conservative sites so the govt can shut them down before the next election.

Poke holes in my theory all you want...With wanna be tyrants holding office, I'm just wary of anything they might do.

[thundley4]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/protect-act/
Senate Bill Gives Feds Power to Order Blacklisting of Piracy SitesThere's More at the link.

Call me a skeptic, but I doubt there is any real concern or driving desire to protect copyrighted material. 
This is just a call for Democrat operatives to post copyrighted material on conservative sites so the govt can shut them down before the next election.

Poke holes in my theory all you want...With wanna be tyrants holding office, I'm just wary of anything they might do.

It is also driven by the campaign donations from Hollywood and the RIAA.  Their money is making what has always been civil cases into criminal cases. That allows the government to foot the bill for prosecution.