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PIRATE Act Introduced in Congress
certron writes "Xeni Jardin has written a story for Wired about the "Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004" aka the PIRATE Act. It and another related bill are designed to criminalize P2P filesharing by lowering the burden of proof for law enforcement and proposing jail terms of up to 10 years. The bill was introduced by Sens. Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy, both of whom received large contributions from the entertainment industries. Under the bill, even sharing a single file (if a judge decides the value is over $10,000) could land a user in jail. Read the full text of Orrin Hatch's remarks."
Just put a clause in the Kazaa EULA that says that the person using the program or the network is not associated with or working for the Recording Industry and that any information that is gathered from the Kazaa network is to be kept confidential. I'm not a lawyer, but it sounds feasible to me...
If you can't say something nice, make sure you have something heavy to throw.
I wish Orrin Hatch would die. This is not an off the cuff response, I really wish he was dead. I think things would be a lot better if maggots were burrowing through his flesh. That is all.
When there's a rash of people randomly running into houses and stealing shit, like they steal from record and movie companies, then the goverment will form some kind of task force to track down the criminals and bring them to justice.
Oh, wait, my bad. They have that. They're called the police.
Have I made my point, or do I have to explain it?
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Er... wtf are you talking about?
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
I bet you're not one of the following.
1. Author
2. Artist
3. Programmer
4. Painter
Without copyright, I will bet pretty soon, there won't be much of a career as author, artist, nor painter.
In US, you can easily buy enough major firearms to wipe out your neighbourhood but a few little fireworks are banned.
Our already over burdened prison system... which is filled with actual criminals who rape, kill or steal...
The former president lies about getting BJ's while on the job, he's fine... but I share a COPY of a song and I get 10 years?
Save me jebus!
No, what you're reading into it is support of the goverment. Considering that this isn't even an issue of goverment, that's a stupid fucking thing to do.
What I agree with is an artist's right to protect the works he creates. In case you've forgotten, copyright law is also the backbone of the entire FOSS movement. How would you feel if companies suddenly started using GPL'd material without releasing their changes or providing source? If you're like most here you'd whine like a bitch. So how is that any different than downloading music you have no rights to?
Beyond that, your argument that I'm a failed musician so I side with the goverment is borderline retarded. If I'd been fucked over by labels, why the flying fuck would I want to defend them?
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
So you don't agree that the inventor of a work should have say over what's done with it? Is that what you're saying? And please, have the balls to login or something. Fighting with an anonymous pussy is annoying.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.