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House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony
JAgostoni writes "Wired news has an article about a new bill that would make it a felony to upload a file to a P2P network." EFF has a copy of the bill online. Conyers and Berman both get over a quarter of their campaign funding from Hollywood, according to opensecrets.org. You may remember Berman from this bill and this one.
Looks like Freenet is labeled as "enabling software" under terms of the proprosed law.
The proposed law also seeks to impose up to a 5 year jail term for registering a domain using false information... Bad stuff.
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
This bill goes after people who allow "enabling" software to be jailed for up to five years if they don't jump through the proper hoops. It is not just going after people who upload copyrighted material. Try reading the law that you are supporting.
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
A felony is the highest form of criminal offense. Convicted felons also give up certain rights (some even after their prison sentence is over), rights like voting, serving in the armed forces or running for any political office higher than county level. And oh yeah, convicted felons give up their right to self defense as well. They are unable to own firearms.
In the 90's (I can't find stats on the aughts), prisons were either the 4th or 5th largest growth industry in the U.S. Obviously the tech and biomed sectors were larger, but still says a lot about our country.
Damn I'm tired of this. It's copyright infringment, not theft. Noone is deprived of tangible property due to p2p use.
To drive that point home a little more: theft of copyrighted material would be stealing a CD out of a store - a misdemeaner.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
"If you have a music (or other copyrighted work) file, and you didn't buy it, technically you stole it."
Um, I have to point out two other possibilities: you received it as a gift, or you created it.
I have lots of stuff on my computer that I didn't buy, including the operating system. It's all Free or Open Source Software, and I received it as a gift. Other stuff on my computer that I didn't buy are things that I wrote (for which I automatically receive the copyright at the instant that I create it).
The stuff I wrote is mine, to do with as I wish. The gifts are licensed to me and I can upload them if the license says I can.
Roman Law is only binding in Louisianna. The other 49 states are common law states, with all British Commonlaw prior to 1776 being binding unless overruled by the legislature...
I remember reading that the right to trial by combat wasn't removed until 1780 somthing...
Alex
You looked at the wrong stat. You looked at the PAC contributions only. Politicians are bought also by individual contributions...
Top Industries supporting Berman lists TV/Music/Movies as #1 with roughly 25% of all contributions made to the "honorable" Howard L. Berman (for sale for highest bidder).
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill politicians who've been bought
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Felons may not have bulletproof vests as well, which I classify as self defense.
The only "bullshit" is what you posted. Why don't you try reading the material at the links you provided:As you should be able to see from the above, only some specific forms of copyright infringement are criminal offenses. Someone who Xerox's an article from a magazine for their personal use has not committed a criminal offense. Someone who downloads a song from Kazaa solely for the purposes of listening to it has not commited a criminal offense. What is criminalized is only willful copyright infringement for profit or when such willful infringement is of works with a retail value of more than $1,000 in a six month (180 day) period. Now please apologize to the original poster who you accused of posting "bullshit."