Saturday, 5 May 2012

Music blog downed for a year by the Feds with no charge made

Who needs SOPA and PIPA when the government can take down a music website for a whole year with no charge and no copyright infringement?
The popular hip-hop music site, Dajaz1.com was taken down by the Feds for almost 13 months. No charge was ever filed as they were "waiting for proof of infringement".
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) took down the website stating that it linked to external pages that hosted unauthorized recordings of copyright material that could be downloaded for free.
The website was unavailable for just over a year as its administrator was embroiled in a legal debate over the alleged infringement charges... read full article.

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