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Piracy Deterrence and Education Act Introduced
Bootsy Collins writes "Last Thursday in the U.S. Congress,
H.R. 2517
was quietly introduced and referred to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill, authored by Lamar Smith (R-TX) and co-sponsored by Howard Berman (D-CA),
directs the FBI
to develop methods of deterring copyright violation through use of peer-to-peer networks, including efforts to facilitate sharing information about suspected violators amongst law enforcement agencies. It also directs the Justice Department to develop programs to educate the American public on why copyright violation is bad. Berman, you may remember, introduce a bill last year that would give the RIAA and MPAA wide latitude to
crack suspected violators' computers.
" Update: 06/23 17:03 GMT by S : We also covered a variant of this story on Saturday.
It also directs the Justice Department to develop programs to educate the American public on why copyright violation is bad
Piracy's bad......mmmmkay?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
God forbid the FBI go after dangerous criminals ... I feel much safer with pot smokers and warez kiddies behind bars.
But don't you realize that File Sharing is a gateway crime? It leads to fraud, prostitution, murder, and massive drug dealing. For the love of god Think of the children!
Is this a trick question?
Hate me!
Not too many conservative lawmakers representing Vermont these days ;)
I did, however, write with regularity to my conservative N.C. representatives when I lived there. I figured every minute some monkey spent reading a letter from a flaming liberal commie asshole like me was one less minute they could be holding prayer meetings or what have you.
I'm a little confused. I thought we didn't even have enough money to keep the arts in schools anymore.
But don't you realize that File Sharing is a gateway crime?
I see filesharing as more of a proxy crime myself...
No statement is true, not even this one.
I don't think you're taking this seriously enough.
According to this article today's Guardian, pirates killed or injured 145 people at sea in the first three months of this year. There are calls for the Royal Navy to station warships in the affected areas, to protect trade routes.
So you see, piracy is an ongoing and deadly threat... oh wait... *reads thread again*... Somebody seems to have started using the word "piracy" to mean "copyright violation". What an odd thing to do.
Ugh. That reminds me of this awful commercial that just started playing up (Ontario, Canada) here on Rogers Cable...
It starts out with this 10 year old-ish boy walking out of a convenience store with a candy bar, and the shop owner runs out and accuses him of shoplifting it.
The scene then jumps to a cops dropping the kid off at his parents house.
The scene jumps again to inside the house, the kid is sitting on the couch with his father next to him. The father asks, "Did your friends put you up to it?" The kid shakes his head. "Then where did you learn to steal?" The kid looks up at his father with big deer in front of headlights eyes and says, "But Dad, you steal satellite signals!"
It then cuts to a white screen with the words "theft is theft" written on it in large black courier font with the sound of sirens and police radio in the background.
The funny thing is that the commercial makes me want to "steal satellite signals" just so I know my money wouldn't be going to fund such dreck.
So, apparently the progression is: P2P leads to Warez. Warez leads to Satellite Hacking. Satellite Hacking leads to Shoplifting, and so on and so on.
So remember, kids! Every time you download a song off the Internet, you kill a baby panda!
I just want to take over the world...Why does that automatically make me EVIL?