Kicking Internet Pirates Off the Web
Zack Whittaker,
ZDNet,
Nov 10, 2008
Everybody is so concerned about punishing so-called pirates. What I want to know is, where is the action on real internet criminals? Spamming is illegal - why aren't we kicking spammers off the net? Phishing - how hard can it be to catch a person trying to get you to send them money? Kick them off the net. Those fake blogs that copy far more content than any file sharer, and do so in the hopes of misleading search engines: why don't we kick them off the internet? ISPs that illegally censor political or union content: why aren't they punished? Domain squatters and other corporate hack tactics: thy should be barred from access, shouldn't they? I would be more inclined to support the policing of the internet if there were any evidence of any intent to police actual crime, and not merely individuals and students and other mostly defenseless targets.
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