Will Buckley at FarePlay has created a petition to support “Take Down, Stay Down” at http://www.takedownstaydown.org/ Read more about this important issue below and at Music Tech Policy.
ARTHUR
Let’s get back to justice…what is justice? What is the intention of justice? The intention of justice is to see that the guilty people are proven guilty and that the innocent are freed. Simple isn’t it? Only it’s not that simple.
From …And Justice for All, written by Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson.
There is a new term in our lexicon: Notice and stay down. What does it mean?
It is a way of encapsulating a distortion of the law that large multinational corporations are using to their immense profit by middlemaning the theft of other people’s property in the weaponized Internet.
In the late 1990s, the large ISPs had a legitimate concern. If they are providing ways for the many to connect with each other over the Internet by means of a technology that also enabled them anonymously to send digitized property by means of that technology–such as…
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The Trichordist 
Considering that the Department of Justice (which happens to be the part of government that is suppose to reign in businesses that use their large scale to oppress people and other businesses) is afraid of Google, I do not think we should hold our breaths waiting for Congress to do what is right knowing that that would be likely to upset the almighty Google.