{"id":844,"date":"2012-01-30T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2012-01-30T14:39:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:39:21","slug":"prior-restraint-and-the-closure-of-megaupload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/prior-restraint-and-the-closure-of-megaupload\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior Restraint and the Closure of MegaUpload"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Prior restraint<\/a> is a simple concept.<\/p>\n

A man owns a book store where half the books are evil, the other half are not. Because his stores inventory is half evil, it is shut down.<\/p>\n

A man owns a book store with one evil book and\u00a0forty\u00a0thousand good books. \u00a0Because of that one evil book, his store is shut down.<\/p>\n

Prior restraint describes both of these cases. Both book stores were shut down, preventing access to the good,\u00a0legitimate, and legal\u00a0works. When in reality only the evil books should have been removed, and the stores allowed to continue doing business. Simple isn’t it?<\/p>\n

The lead up is done, now the article …<\/p>\n

Recently a web site called MegaUpload.com<\/a> was taken offline by the FBI.\u00a0MegaUpload.com<\/a>\u00a0was an online\u00a0file hosting service<\/a>\u00a0where you could store your files and access them from anywhere with an internet connection. Many of the files infringed on copyright, but many others did not. This is a\u00a0difficult\u00a0conundrum<\/a>,\u00a0for a sizable portion of the 180 million users<\/a>\u00a0of this file service. If even 2% of them are not sharing files that are somehow are illegal, that means 3.6 million people have lost their files. What they see is this<\/a>, with no ability to reclaim their files.<\/p>\n

Now I ask a simple question. If one book in a store is good, and 40 thousand are bad, do you close down the book store, or do you remove the bad books and leave the one?<\/p>\n

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Before you answer. …. \u00a0 the Dictionary, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, \u00a0Death Be Not Proud, The Collected Works of Shakespeare, \u00a0Kama Sutra, \u00a0collected works of Ancient Greece, Bible, Koran, philosophy from Thales to Aristotle.<\/h5>\n

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