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YouTube Withdraws Cleric’s Videos: “American and British officials pressed for the removal of videos featuring calls to jihad by Anwar al-Awlaki.

(Via NYT > Technology.)

7 Bit Torrent Piracy Suits Target 5,469: “In one of the largest swoops targeting bit torrent piracy, numerous suits were filed Friday against 5,469 suspected of poaching porn off the Internet.”

(Via XBIZ.com | News & Articles.)

3 More Adult Companies Sue 1,100 Bit Torrent Users: “1,100 John Does were targeted in three separate suits waged by CP Productions Inc., First Time Videos and Future Blue Inc.”

(Via XBIZ.com | News & Articles.)

Your Quick Reference Guide to Current US BitTorrent Lawsuits: “If the dizzying array of movie producers, lawsuits, and law firms has your head spinning, don’t worry you’re not alone. We’ve put together a chart with all kinds of great info that will help you find information quick. Need to know what jurisdiction the Hurt Locker lawsuit is taking place in? What about the name of the Judge overseeing the Debbie Does Dallas litigation? It’s all right here, and hopefully will provide some good, quick insight into the nearly 20,000 John Does accused of copyright infringement.”

(Via Slyck.com File-Sharing News And Information.)

Names Will be Named in Debbie Does Dallas Lawsuits: “For those with spouses, mates, girlfriends or boyfriends, explaining a copyright infringement lawsuit is not an easy matter. If you’re busted because you uploaded The Hurt Locker, this isn’t the end of the world – just about anyone can understand that. If you’re busted for uploading Debbie Does Dallas, well it wont be the most pleasant conversation, but most couples will survive. If you’re caught sharing Kings of New York – well we can only sympathize with the poor bloke who has to convince his mate that a substantial demographic of heterosexuals help fuel this multi-billion dollar industry.”

(Via Slyck.com File-Sharing News And Information.)

At Least 40 John Does Strike Back Against the USCG: “Within the last few days, over 40 motions to quash have been filed by John Does accused of sharing ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘The Steam Experiment’. Other than Time Warner’s motion to quash, this move represents one of the largest counter-moves against the USCG (US Copyright Group).”

(Via Slyck.com File-Sharing News And Information.)

Hustler Targets 635 BitTorrent Users: “Just when you thought 20,000+ BitTorrent lawsuits wasn’t enough, 635 more are piled on. In a new round of lawsuits, LFP Internet Group (originally Larry Flynt Publications) filed their copyright complaint against the unnamed defendants for sharing the adult film ‘Barely Legal School Girls #6′. The complaint was filed in federal district court in Dallas Texas by Evan Stone, the same lawyer working on the Lucas Entertainment lawsuits.”

(Via Slyck.com File-Sharing News And Information.)

Proposed US law could force ISPs to block websites on piracy allegations: “The US Senate heard proposals this week for a new law which would give US authorities the right to block access by US internet users to websites accused of copyright infringement, including sites based outside the US.“

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Department of Justice Releases First National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 2, 2010

Department of Justice Releases First National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

U.S. Marshals Service to Launch Nationwide Operation Targeting Top 500 Most Dangerous, Non-compliant Sex Offenders

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that the Department of Justice released its first-ever National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction. The strategy also provides the first-ever comprehensive threat assessment of the dangers facing children from child pornography, online enticement, child sex tourism, commercial sexual exploitation and sexual exploitation in Indian Country, and outlines a blueprint to strengthen the fight against these crimes. The strategy builds upon the department’s accomplishments in combating child exploitation by establishing specific, aggressive goals and priorities and increasing cooperation and collaboration at all levels of government and the private sector.

As part of the overall strategy, the U.S. Marshals Service is launching a nationwide operation targeting the top 500 most dangerous, non-compliant sex offenders in the nation. Additionally, the department will create a national database to allow federal, state, tribal, local and international law enforcement partners to deconflict their cases with each other, engage in undercover operations from a portal facilitated or hosted by the database, share information and intelligence and conduct analysis on dangerous offenders and future threats and trends. The department also created 38 additional Assistant U.S. Attorney positions to devote to child exploitation cases, and over the coming months will work to fill the vacancies and train the new assistants in this specialized area.

‘Although we’ve made meaningful progress in protecting children across the country, and although we’ve brought a record number of offenders to justice in recent years, it is time to renew our commitment to this work. It is time to intensify our efforts,’ said Attorney General Holder. ‘This new strategy provides the roadmap necessary to do just that – to streamline our education, prevention and prosecution activities; to improve information sharing and collaboration; and to make the most effective use of limited resources. Together, we are sending an important message – that the U.S. government, and our nation’s Department of Justice, has never been more committed to protecting our children and to bringing offenders to justice.’

‘Thanks to law enforcement operations like Operation Nest Egg and Operation Achilles, the department and our law enforcement partners have brought thousands of offenders to justice in the last year. But this progress is only a start,’ said Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler. ‘Tangible steps outlined in the National Strategy will bring our fight to the next level.’

The strategy first analyzed the threat to our nation’s children and described the current efforts at all levels of the government against this threat. Since FY 2006, the Department of Justice has filed 8,464 Project Safe Childhood (PSC) cases against 8,637 defendants. These cases include prosecutions of online enticement of children to engage in sexual activity, interstate transportation of children to engage in sexual activity, production, distribution and possession of child pornography and other offenses.

Despite vigorously fighting all aspects of child exploitation, the department recognized that more work remains to be done. To that end, the department’s strategy lays out goals to increase coordination among the nation’s investigators, better train investigators and prosecutors, advance law enforcement’s technological capabilities and enhance research to inform decisions on deterrence, incarceration and monitoring. The strategy also includes a renewed commitment to public awareness and community outreach.

As part of its public outreach efforts, the department is re-launching ProjectSafeChildhood.gov, PSC’s public website. PSC is a department initiative launched in 2006 that aims to combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC marshals federal, state, tribal and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

For more information regarding the National Strategy to Combat Child Exploitation, Prevention and Interdiction, please visit: www.projectsafechildhood.gov/docs/natstrategyreport.pdf

Links to blog in email made sender liable, says US court: “

Defamatory content ‘published’

A US bankruptcy court has said that a man committed defamation just by forwarding an email with links in it to online material that was defamatory. The court said that the man ‘published’ the blog to his email recipients.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)