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EFF's Letter to the Senate on INDUCE

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-the-word-out dept.

z0ink writes "Picked up off of EFFector today a letter to all US Senators on the topic of IICA (Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 -- formerly the INDUCE Act). 'In February, EFF proposed an industry-led collective licensing solution that would ensure compensation for copyright owners while minimizing the need for governmental intrusion into the digital music marketplace,' writes EFF Executive Director Shari Steele in the letter. 'It's time for a solution to the P2P conflict that pays artists, not lawyers.' IICA has been covered here on Slashdot with more information available here."

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  1. No comment by duckandcoveranduck · · Score: 1, Funny
    From the website:
    EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people -- lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries -- working to protect your digital rights.
  2. Re:Copyright owners != artists by Short+Circuit · · Score: 3, Funny

    putting a whole shitload of fat guys in suits out of work

    It's for their own good. They'll lose weight that way.

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  3. That was just "Snowball"... by EvilCabbage · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...."Why do they call him Snowball?"

    Some days I can't help myself, sorry.

  4. Re:Lawyers by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's time for a solution to any problem that never involves lawyers.

    I tell you what: the first thing we do, let's read Henry VI part II, act iv, scene ii.

    Good advice from 410 years ago.

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  5. Re:Lawyers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone on Slashdot actually spelled 'lose' correctly!

  6. Then nobody has any karma, right? by Bozdune · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're throwing the baby out with the bath water. Because the ACLU supports the rights of KKK members (and anyone else) to demonstrate, do you therefore not support the ACLU? What political party, anywhere, has a platform each of whose individual planks you wholeheartedly support?

    It will never happen. The best you can hope for in life is to support organizations whose views MOSTLY correspond to yours. Unless, that is, you want to be all by yourself. What's that old joke? I think it's from MAD magazine, mid 60's -- one Frenchman is a restaurant owner, two Frenchman is a political party (apologies to the French).

    Bien soir.

    (I think the joke finishes, "three Frenchmen is a love triangle," in case anyone cares).