Alternatives To The INDUCE Act

The Importance of writes "The INDUCE Act, which has been discussed many times previously, will likely be getting a lot more attention thanks to the recent Grokster decision. The Register of Copyrights, who thinks the Betamax decision should be overturned, is supposed to come up with a consensus fix to the current language of the bill by Sept. 7. So, various people are proposing alternative solutions to the INDUCE Act. C|Net reports on one coalition's version [PDF] [HTML]. However, there are also versions by Prof. Tim Wu [PDF] [HTML], IEEE-USA [PDF] [HTML] and Ernie Miller [HTML]." Read more below about the proposed "Don't Induce" act.

Iphtashu Fitz writes "The 'Don't Induce Act' proposes that only someone who distributes a commercial computer program that is 'specifically designed' for wide-scale piracy on digital networks could be held liable for copyright violations. The proposal includes three requirements that must be met before a software distributor can be found liable: The 'predominant' use of the program must be the mass, indiscriminate infringing redistribution of copyrighted works; the 'commercial viability of the computer program' must depend on revenue derived from piracy; and the software distributor must have 'undertaken conscious, recurring, persistent and deliberate acts' to encourage copyright infringement. No surprise that the MPAA and RIAA are opposed to this 'watered down' bill. MPAA vice president Fritz Attaway showed his organizations true colors by stating that the Don't Induce Act was so narrowly drafted it would be impossible to use it to shutter even operators of peer-to-peer networks."

Comments

Mary-Kate Olsen, 1986 - 2004

[Anonymous Coward]

Truly sad

Re:Mary-Kate Olsen, 1986 - 2004

[VMaN]

Some thing you don't joke around with...

5th?

[Anonymous Coward]

Post?

whom?

[tod_miller]

I think it is... I dunno, it'll be -6 modded before anyone picks up on my spelling, unless people like the idea of seeing RIAA clicking that link :-)

muahahah *cough* sod them

NTK

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.ntk.net/
Tips, news & gossip to tips@spesh.com - with NTK in subject line, cheers.

"I remember playing Doom while my teenage son watched over my
shoulder and my wife sat quietly reading and drinking tea.
A rocket exploding in my face caused both my son and I to
simultaneously jump and scream which in turn resulted in the
launching of my wife's tea! She is now my ex wife but happily
both my son and I still play Doom I and II..."
- content-sharing agreement between somethingawful.com
and BBC News Online bears its first sinister fruit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3558248.stm

>> HARD NEWS <<
market debuts

GOOGLE is left feeling slightly unlucky (for values of
unlucky greater than 1.6 billion dollars). Secure hashes
aren't (but don't be too insecure, say the cryptographers,
frantically looking around for a new algorithm). Just what
is going on? We were assuming all that last-minute fumbling
at Mountain View was just the clever Google maths eggheads
(etc) carefully manipulating their price to make exactly
4,285,199,774 dooooooollars. Surely there's easier ways to
make some spare change? There's this June's "$10,000 for the
first MD5 hash collision" prize by CertainKey that still
looks unclaimed - even though they're turfing them out every
five minutes in China. Why not send them a copy of the
paper, and pick up your cheque? While you're at it, might it
be worth getting a bunch of CA certificates signed by
Verisign for sites like "wwv.paypan.com" - you know, just in
case you can bitflip it to something a little more lucrative
when the Chinese publish their results. It's an investment
in the future!
http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_08.h tml
- the hash market crash explained gently
http://www.certainkey.com/md5challenge/
- what do you mean, "not in the scientific spirit of the competition"?
https://www.eff.com/
- oho! MD5 signed certificate! Maybe we can turn it into egg.com!
http://www.xcom2002.com/doh/index.php?s=04081615pi c
- Google boner!

And on the subject of last-minute changes: Wikipedia founder
JIMMY WALES is coming to the UK next Tuesday (2004-08-31), and
would like to speak to any audience who'll have him in London
that evening. Venue details are a little scarce at the moment
because the "organisers" are actively still looking for one,
though we're entirely confident that something will happen
because they have, of course, already set up a wiki.
http://www.minty.org/cgi-bin/wp/wiki.pl?HomePage
- considered using Quicktopic, but just didn't seem right somehow

>> ANTI-NEWS <<
berating the obvious

will none of the comments stand up for the poor beleaguered
music biz? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3547788.stm#views - until
you get to "Mat Morrisroe", who seems to share the same name
as this guy: http://www.uksponsorship.com/music.htm ... all
your favourites this week at http://dohthehumanity.com/ (Odeon
Cheltenham introduces special "student surcharge" of 40p),
culminating in a coldly commercial Google ad on this quite
heartbreaking Falco: http://xcom2002.com/doh/?s=04081919apt
... Guardian Online decodes "PDC" in context of digital TV
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1285 533,00.html
as "Primary Domain Controller" ("Programme Delivery Control"
not in their acronym dictionary?)... http://www.rejesus.org/
logo vs http://www.alliance-leicester.co.uk/ - by any chance
related?... obvious "rollercoaster"-based designs, #252:

don't ban my ipod!

[sometwo]

They can pry my ipod from my cold dead hands.

fp!

[Anonymous Coward]

n/t