Patriot Act Used to Enforce Copyright Law?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @12:27AM from the no-big-shocker-there dept.

iter8 writes " The Stargate SG-1 Information Archive is reporting that the Feds filed charges against Adam McGaughey, creator of SG1Archive.com. The website is a fan site for the television show Stargate SG-1. The charges allege that Adam used the website to engage in Criminal Copyright Infringement and Trafficking in Counterfeit Services. Two interesting things about the charges are that they were apparently set in motion by a complaint by our friends at the MPAA and the FBI invoked a provision of the USA Patriot Act to obtain financial records from his ISP. Is copyright infringment now a terrorist act?"

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Re:FUD ALERT by ottothecow · 2004-07-27 10:11 · Score: 0, Redundant

yes, the gag orders that go along with those things are sure helpful to "bring them in line with modern technology"
Librarian: "Why hello Jim, some nice young men stopped by today and wanted to see those books you checked out last week. I didn't want to show them, but they said I had to and that I couldnt tell yo--"
*SWAT team busts in and arrests librarian*
Ok so its a bit of a stretch there, but the things the act does do quite a good job of violating our rights.

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