Re: Arrested - re: TAG ISSUE-25 deep linking

Is there an opportunity to file a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of
the TAG on this point?

Dan 

On 09/03/2011 12:56, "Henry Story" <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
> Btw, the mail archives loose a lot of information in mails such as yours, as
> they remove the HTML links that it contains, and only show the text version.
> TimBL's thread is stored here
> 
> http://www.w3.org/mid/C05B172D-578E-40C1-A130-4AF42D9DDCBB@w3.org
> 
> Notice that the links are not available in the archive. Is this because issue
> 25 is not resolved? ;-)
> 
> Henry
> 
> On 9 Mar 2011, at 11:18, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> 
>> It seems Issue-25 has been escalated.
>> Tim
>> 
>> Re: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/25
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> From: "David Segal, DemandProgress.org <http://DemandProgress.org/> "
>>> <info@demandprogress.org>
>>> Date: 2011-03-09 0:09:36 GMT
>>> Subject: Arrested
>>> Reply-To: "David Segal, DemandProgress.org <http://DemandProgress.org/> "
>>> <info@demandprogress.org>
>>> 
>>> Breaking news: Demand Progress has obtained documents that reveal a radical
>>> shift in how law enforcement is policing the Internet.
>>> 
>>> Brian McCarthy ran a website that linked to various sites where you could
>>> watch online streams of TV shows and sports networks. A couple months ago,
>>> the government seized his domain name and on Friday theyarrested him and
>>> charged him with criminal copyright infringement -- punishable by five years
>>> in prison.  We just dug up the complaint, and you can view it here.
>>> <http://act.demandprogress.org/go/70?akid=342.37427.e-vjFU&t=1>
>>> 
>>> Click here to tell the government that there's nothing illegal about linking
>>> to another website -- and that they need to drop the charges right away!
>>>  <http://act.demandprogress.org/go/70?akid=342.37427.e-vjFU&t=2>
>>> 
>>> The complaint reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and
>>> Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) don't even allege that McCarthy
>>> made a copy of anything! Just that his site linked to various sites with
>>> copyrighted material. Under that sort of thinking, everyone who's sent
>>> around a link to a copyrighted YouTube video is a criminal.
>>> 
>>> This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE -- a steamship-era
>>> department that's proving once again that it doesn't understand the
>>> Internet.
>>> 
>>> We need to push back -- and fast -- before they try to lock up more
>>> Americans.  Will you click here to tell DHS and ICE to back off?
>>> <http://act.demandprogress.org/go/70?akid=342.37427.e-vjFU&t=3>
>>> 
>>> Thanks for fighting back.
>>> 
>>> -- The Demand Progress team
>>> 
>>> P.S. This is a critical fight with huge ramifications for Internet freedom.
>>> Will you forward this petition to your friends and help us make sure that
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