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Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill
The Importance of writes "C|Net News is reporting that a new copyright bill, to be introduced next week by Sen. Orrin Hatch, will likely overturn the Betamax decision (which held that VCRs were legal) and threaten all sorts of innovation. EFF broke the story and Copyfight has been all over it. Don't miss the comments of law professor Susan Crawford who says, 'This is amazing. Now we're waaaaaay beyond contributory and vicarious theories of liability, which are court-created and pretty darn broad on their own.' Text of the bill here and PDF."
The Induce Act stands for "Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act,"
See? Stop being mean to them. They're not corporate shills trying to control culture and take away computers. They're doing it for the children. Think of the children. Don't you care about the children? I, for one, welcome our new child-protecting overlords.
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That should make for some interesting news when nearly every household in America would be in violation of the law - what, are they going to storm down every home who has a vcr that is capable of 'recording'? They never cease to amaze me - whats next - the cassette recorder?? Or how about my camcorder?
"He took away your VCR" won't go well on the campaign trail
lol - if you thought Americans got mad when you went for their guns, wait till you see what happens when you go for their TVs.
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I, for one, welcome our new Mormon overlords.
Utah. He's from Utah.
i have a social disorder and i dont like leaving my house.. so i cant do it.. but i can complain about it on /. and hope someone else does it for me =P
So why dont YOU do something about it?
Hatch is a conservative Mormon who has denounced pornography in the past and who suggested last year that copyright holders should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of music pirates
I think they misspelled "moron"
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
I love the idea of a sponsored congressman. They should go to work each day dressed like those NASCAR drivers. Logos all over the place, head to toe. He pauses in the middle of his speach to take a refreshing drink of Coca-Cola. Ahhhhh.
Hell lets stop pretending anymore. Lets create corporate representatives and get our elected ones back. All these probablems coming from the fact that corporations are seen as people in the eyes of the law. Make the House, the Senate and the Market. People elect the first two, corporations vote for the third and can't contribute to the others.
"wait till you see what happens when you go for their TVs."
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But I thought that TVs caused gun violence. If we take away the TVs, then impressionable minds would have no access to Manson videos and therefore would no longer need guns. We can kill two evil, dirty, vile birds with one stone.
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Yeah, aside from being immoral, corrupt, a liar, a scoundrel and a cheat, he's a damn fine senator!
Lets not forget the internet itself... ftp, p2p, http, etc. all run on that evil invention, and can all be used for infringing copyright or distribution of kiddie porn... Oh, the humanity...
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Yep. As soon as I see "Sen Hatch to...", I just feel like crying. The fact that he is an elected official just drives me crazy. Its like a glazed donut, washed down with beer.
Wake up Utah, there's something stuck on your shoe, and you're stinking up the country.
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use - Mark Twain
The world's going to hell in a handbasket.
Actually it isn't. The handbasket(patent pending) is not available for licensing as a transportation device to hell yet due to litigation issues with the shopping basket(tm) owners.
Of course the world is still going to hell, but this means that we will have carry each piece there by hand.
If every piece of technology that can be used to violate copyrights is banned, how is the RIAA/MPAA going to make their CDs/DVDs?
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Dear Sir,
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch is an absolute fuckwad. Please vote Nay on absolutely any bill he introduces or co-sponsors. That especially goes for any copyright bill, porn, research, gays, school prayer, church&state in general, flag burning, and on and on and on. Oh, and if he tries to ammend the constitution to circumvemt the Bill of Rights for the umpteen-billionth time, please smack him over the head with a brick.
Thank you for your time,
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[address]
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
The perfect time (in the government's eyes) for you to die is at age 6x and 1/2...
Oh, God! What's the value of X? My 24th birthday was a month and a half ago, will I live to see another Halloween???
How can you say that constituents (voters) don't taint the system?
You're right! Democracy is Corrupt.
Instead of one person one vote we should change it to one dollar one vote.
After all, the more money a person has, the more important they are, and therefore they deserve to have more say.
All in favor if financial weighted voting say Aye.
Nobody died when Nixon lied.
I'm meeting you half way you stupid hippies!
Duke Nukem Forever will be 15 years old when it's released.