One has to wonder why the DHS is prosecuting this individual and not Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ixquick, etc.? Could it be because this individual doesn't have deep pockets to defend himself?
New York Man Faces Five Years In Jail For 'Linking' To Online Videos
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/10/new-york-man-faces-five-years-in-jail-for-linking-to-online-videos/
"In a case against a New York website owner, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is claiming that merely linking to copyrighted material is a crime."
"'Based on my participation in the investigation leading to the February 2011 Seizure, I know that Channelsurfing.net was a "linking" website,' special agent Daniel Brazier wrote in the complaint."
"The new growth industry in the US is criminalizing, harassing, robbing and imprisoning American citizens."
- Author Unknown
"Why is it so hard to understand that the reason the first ten Amendments — commonly known as the Bill of Rights — are trampled underfoot by politicos and bureaucrats is that the Founding Fathers neglected to provide a suitably harsh penalty for it?" — L. Neil Smith
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