Such remedies might of course curtail a website’s income and even lead to its demise, as well as to executive and worker unemployment and investor monetary losses.
That is because those bills, problematic as they were, created new forms of civil copyright enforcement-blocking of infringing foreign websites by both search engines and ISPs, and termination of third party payment and ad services for both foreign and domestic infringing websites. It is however the viewpoint of this article that the Megaupload indictment will likely be seen in the long run as having a more significant impact on Internet business models and innovation than the withdrawal of PIPA and SOPA-and this would be the case even if those bills had been enacted in some combined form. law they are of course entitled to a presumption of innocence and the government is required to prove the elements of the charges against them beyond a reasonable doubt. This article will not opine on the merits of the case against or its probable outcome-that is a matter for the criminal courts to determine, if and when the arrested principals of the company are extradited to stand trial. Further, the White House policy statement on anti-piracy legislation was almost surely informed by advance knowledge of the impending MegaBust and must be evaluated as one part of an overall Administration strategy that is transitioning from domain seizures to major criminal enforcement efforts. The resolution of this dispute will determine the ability of Internet services to move to “the cloud” and the responsibilities and restrictions that will be placed on cloud service providers. Yet no one involved with Congressional interaction on either side of the issue believes it has been sidetracked for long, and “Hollywood” and “Silicon Valley” are both plotting their next moves in this high-stakes game to further define the responsibilities and potential liabilities-both civil and criminal-of Internet intermediaries that provide technologies with both legitimate and infringing uses. Netizens immediately proclaimed a major victory by a new Internet-based citizens’ movement using online protests to counter traditional inside-the-Beltway lobbying tactics. On Friday, January 20 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith announced that consideration of PIPA and SOPA would be suspended until further notice. District Court.” Dozens of servers located in the State of Virginia hosting files placed by Megaupload users came under the possession and scrutiny of the FBI. The website was seized and operationally shuttered, its landing page replaced with a notice stating “This domain name associated with the website has been seized pursuant to an order issued by a U.S. Seven individuals were charged with conspiracy, money laundering, and direct infringement and face up to 20 years imprisonment each.
On Thursday, January 19 the largest criminal copyright indictment ever leveled against an online provider was brought against the cyberlocker service. On Tuesday, January 18, an unprecedented voluntary blackout of thousands of Internet websites was staged in protest of PIPA and SOPA, and Congressional offices were deluged with protesting e-mails and phone calls. The statement was interpreted as indicating that current versions of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) were not acceptable to the President-although no explicit veto threat was made.
law, have strong due process protections, be targeted at criminal activity, and not inhibit innovation. intellectual property by foreign websites, it outlined that to be acceptable to the Obama Administration any such legislation must guard against online censorship, be narrowly targeted at websites currently beyond the reach of U.S. While supporting efforts to curb infringement of U.S. On Saturday, January 14th the White House issued a policy statement in response to an online petition against pending anti-piracy legislation signed by more than 100,000 individuals. Mid-January 2012 marked a major inflection point for digital copyright policy in the United States:
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