Dozier Internet Law: Bush Signs Pro-IP; Palin's Hacker Identified?

Dozier Internet Law discussed the passage of the 'Pro-IP" bill recently despite the opposition of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and the rest of the usual lineup of liberal, free speech expansionists vigorously opposing the law. Despite many claims that the President would veto the bill, which toughens the intellectual property laws of the US, I noted that Congress had a 2/3 majority vote that would override any actual veto even if President Bush was inclined to agree with the left wingers, which would be a first. The President has now signed the bill into law.

Dozier Internet Law has also been following the new child predator bill called "Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008" or the "KIDS Act of 2008." President Bush just signed it into law. It requires registered sex offenders to provide "Internet identifiers", including e-mail addresses, to state sex offender registries. Those identifiers will also be used by social networking sites to identify suspect users. Dozier Internet Law finished a case in the not too distant past in which the prime defendant was a convicted child predator but was posing on popular social network and expert sites as a regular guy and a subject matter "expert". When we got his online defamation and extortion protection racket shut down by a Federal Judge in the Midwest he then launched a reputation management business, trying to leverage the knowledge he had earned in using SEO in his previous escapades. This new law helps websites proactively deal with these types, needless to say. 

I can't end this post without congratulating the Department of Justice and the US Attorney for bringing serious criminal charges against the young college student in Tennessee who allegedly hacked into VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account. He was apparently using an "anonymizer"to hide his IP address. The sad thing is he probably did not understand the significance of his actions, and if you read through the "legal advice" on the web from the liberal free speechers you can understand how gullible young netizens get the wrong ideas as to lawfulness. And yes, despite what they might hear coming from the free speechers trying to promote hatred and dissension online, the web is NOT anonymous, and in many instances you will be held accountable for misconduct...and in a life shattering way.