2011

In which I appear on “This Week In Law” not so much defending SOPA but defending the attempt for creating remedies for the sort of ills (specifically, online counterfeiting by non-US entities) that SOPA is supposed to address. My bit starts at about the 3:00 point. As an aside, we could view a SMS crawl

The story so far.  MegaUpload is a file transfer site.  Various music artists got together and filmed a video of a song in support of MegaUpload.  UMG brought a DMCA notice.  MegaUopload filed a 512(f) action alleging bad faith use of the DMCA notice-and-takedown procedure.

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The crux of his argument appears in the first sentence, sub (a), on the page 8.

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