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RIAA Sends Letter to Senate Supporting INDUCE Act
The Importance of writes "Slashdot has discussed the INDUCE Act before (and here and here). The act would make 'intentionally inducing' infringement a crime, but defines inducing so broadly that all sorts of technology is threatened. A little over a week ago, tech companies and civil rights groups sent a letter to some senators asking for hearings on the bill. A couple of days ago, the RIAA responded with their own letter sent to all 100 senators. There is also an abridged and annotated version of the RIAA letter. LawMeme has put together an index to INDUCE Act analysis."
I believe that if we can moderate that letter from the RIAA, it would have a score of (-1, Troll).
If some American citizen is going to emigrate i can help to start a new life in a free country ;)
SHE does throw dice.
This induces people to commit crimes by copying and sharing these recordings that would never exist if the RIAA didn't sell them in the first place.
ARREST THE RIAA!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
We urge you to support it. It is intended to target bad actors only
Bruce Willis and and Sylvester Stallone were unavailable for comment.
When will the senators etc. relise EVERYONE hates the RIAA and similar groups. If they support something then everyone else should be anti it. It's like Microsoft or the bogey man. All really evil but no one who can do anything about them ever sees them.
I like muppets.
lies, lies, contrived statistics, spin, I'm a tool, lies, emotional evocation, misrepresentation, lies, lies, damn lies
Sincerely,
Mitch Bainwol
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
Bureaucrats United with Lazy Lobbyists Stopping Helpful Information Technology act.
trick tricksy RIAA tries to tricks us. wants to steal our PRECIOUS.
According to this proposed law, anything that can be used for or is used in the infringing of copyrighted material can be construed as inducing infringement.
In order to infringe on copyrighted material, you need to have the material itself and a device or method to copy it.
Therefore, copyrighted material is an inducement to infringe.
Copyrighted material can't be copied if it's not created.
Artists create copyrighted material.
They are therefore contributing to the infringement of copyrighted material.
The RIAA can only exist if it supports artists.
The RIAA supports artists who create copyrighted material.
The RIAA are therefore contributing to the infringement of copyrighted material.
Because of this, the RIAA should be ordered to stop supporting artists as a result of this law.
Since the RIAA cannot support artists, it must cease to exist.
Hooray!
That green slime had it coming.
I'm all for electronic harassment.
Record all of your complaints in wav format, copywrite your own words, and email them to the RIAA.
The stupid analogy act.
Whereby, if someone uses that stupid shoplifting analogy to compare to copyright infringement, they get sentenced to 1000 years and regular beatings with a baseball bat.
Hahahaha!!! :))
For once, being in a third world country feels great. No big brother watching while you pirate to your heart's content!!
Law enforcement in countries like China/India is especially more difficult given the HUGE populations and meagre resources/understanding/moral (read corruption) at the disposal of the law enforcement agencies to go after the culprits.
This will force the music and software companies to sell there wares for cheaper and more reasonable prices. If they don't, then won't sell at all, like now where most of us simply pirate all the stuff!!
Three cheers for poverty and bad law enforcement!!
Agree totally. Speech and singing should also be banned as people often SING copies of songs, WITHOUT PAYING AN ADDITIONAL FEE.
-- Yours the RIAA
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Sure, joining an ultra-left wing organization like the EFF is very effective in combatting this type of legislation that has the freaking Democratic majority leader as one of the sponsors.
This one is a lost cause. You can't come up with an argument against it that sounds legitimate. It's going to pass.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
To attract women! (Except for the women musicians, of course...)
A brief quote from just one of the EFF's web pages
OnLine Activism
EFF developed materials to inform online activists of the state of the law concerning their protest activities online. Set to be launched in summer, 2002, the website will augment presentations that EFF legal staff have given at several conferences of and about activists, including the 2002 Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference, the Berkman Center's Cybertree Conference in May, 2002 and the Ruckus Society Tech Toolbox Camp in June, 2002.
EFF's legal team worked with Professor Anita Ramasastry and her students at the University of Washington and Nancy Chang of the Center for Constitutional Rights to develop the website and ongoing presentations.
Puh-leeeze. Left wing all the way!
As for the arguments presented - the RIAA claims their business is being wrecked by this. That's all that matters. The only counter-argument that would have any traction would be that the RIAA is lying, and no one is advancing that pov because no one has the credibility to do so.
I repeat: this is a lost cause and it's going to pass. Well, unless you can prove they are lying somehow. Almost impossible anyway.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Puts on my Jonathan Swift costume . . .
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I know . . . . let's do this . .
Outlaw high speed Internet connections!!
Can you imagine trying to download the latest pr0n, err . . . RIAA product . . . at 56 Kb???
And since I only get 24.4 Kb via dialup where I live, ouch!
Hmmm - Brittney Smears in slow motion . . . Speedoman 2 in slow motion . . . . (btw - I liked Spiderman 2).
Then we could have roving bands of cops frisking random folk for R/W CDs and DVDs . . . preventing them from being shared the 'old fashioned' way.
There are reasons for piracy, and there are reasons for declining sales of RIAA garbage, TV garbage, and MPAA garbage.
Wow - repetition is a nice tool.
Yes folks, it's because 90% of the stuff being sold, marketed, and stuffed down our throats today is garbage.
There's another rant or two buried in here, but since this is just a "Modest Proposal", I'll leave that to another time.
Well, we know you are a card carrying left winger for advancing that tired argument. I've heard it many times, in many ways. It runs something along the lines of 'Communism would work if only the right people implemented it'.
The search continues for the 'right people'.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
I live in Canada! Yipee, none of this RIAA bullshit. I firmly think we should enact a law that would allow the police to shoot Orrin Hatch on sight.
"Being a Democrat or Republican is not like being Borg"
This is true! The Borg are neither bribable nor blackmailable!