Earlier this week, I place together a list of some of the <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100925/12401911168/a-gaze-at-the-technologies-industries-senators-leahy-hatch-would-have-banned-in-the-past.shtml” target=”_blank”>technologies that a code like COICA might have banned in the past</a>, noting that when they first came outside, legacy industries condemned them as being “dedicated to infringing activities,” which is the basis that the Justice Department would get to ban websites under COICA, in some cases with small or no due action. However some human beings have pointed outside that it’s worth pointing outside some modern technologies that the entertainment industry is still trying to ban via lawsuit, which could potentially fit under the definitions in the code as well. For example:
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<li><b>YouTube</b>: While Viacom claims it’s <i>immediately</i> okay with YouTube thanks to its ContentID system, if you glance at over Viacom’s filings in the lawsuit, they constitute it clear that they believe YouTube was “dedicated to infringing activities.” It’s not dense to see that, if COICA had been encircling five years ago, there would be no YouTube today.
</li><li><b>Music lockers</b>: As I <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100916/01441111039.shtml”>mentioned</a> recently, I’ve been playing encircling with a hardly any music lockers, as a path of storing and backing up my (legal, authorized) music collection, and as a path to access it on the go. I can’t see how it’s infringing for me to constitute employ of my own music in such a manner, however as we’ve seen with EMI’s <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091019/1848596602.shtml”>lawsuit</a> against Michael Robertson and the MP3tunes locker, some record marks believe such things are “dedicated to infringing activities.” Does it seem reasonable that the Justice Department can just block access to a site that lets me store my own music?
</li><li><b>Music search engines</b>: Remember Seeqpod? It was a really useful search engine for music. It didn’t store or transmit any music itself, however simply acted as Google. Warner Music and EMI both sued the corporation, forcing it to <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090331/1807314334.shtml”>declare bankruptcy</a> (and bizarrely, it was just <a href=”http://www.internetfinancialnews.com/financialblogtalk/news/ifn-6-20100903IntertrustPurchasesSeeqpodAssets.html” target=”_blank”>bought by a DRM corporation</a>). With a code like COICA, it would be much simpler for the record marks and their former lawyers in the Justice Department to simply shut down really useful tools like Seeqpod.
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And that’s just the commence. It’s not dense to reckon of all sorts of services that are coming outside these days that are derided by anti-visionary industry lawyers as “dedicated to infringing activities.” Do we really desire to allow the federal administration and a bunch of lawyers to kill off these technologies, without a lawsuit, and without a chance to demonstrate that they do a abundance more than aid human beings infringe?<br /><br /><a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100928/16500711201/what-else-might-coica-be-used-to-censor.shtml”>Permalink</a> | <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100928/16500711201/what-else-might-coica-be-used-to-censor.shtml#comments”>Comments</a> | <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100928/16500711201/what-else-might-coica-be-used-to-censor.shtml?op=sharethis”>Email This Tale</a><br />
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