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Copyright Law Mashup Moving Through Congress
The Importance of writes "The INDUCE Act may be dead (for now), but that doesn't mean that Congress won't pass any copyright laws this year. Right now, HR 4077, the "Piracy Deterrence in Education" bill pulls together a number of different initiatives to not only get the government involved in civil copyright enforcement, but change fundamental definitions in copyright, and make certain types of home video viewing illegal. The Senate version (brought to you by Sen. Hatch and Leahy) adds even more copyright law changes. According to Public Knowledge, 'The recording industry and Hollywood are making headway! Threatening bills are positioned to move possibly today or tomorrow (yes, even Saturday!) in the Senate and we need your help, now. Not only do they want to rewrite copyright law (again) to lower the standard required for criminal enforcement of copyright infringement; but now they're changing how you watch TV or DVDs in your own home! The bills (H.R. 4077 and H.R. 2391) also are written to make the way you use iTunes and WiFi a crime. '"
I, for one, welcome our mashup copyright owners. Oh and by the way... nothing for you to see here, move along. (Or a 503 error)
Power corrupts, absolute power is kind of neat.
They'll manage to make singing in the shower illegal. But they won't catch me. I'll have a sound-tight bathroom built that can't be detected by federal agents on the outside. It will have special radar and active noise cancelling, along with speakeras projecting white noise (generated live using custom technology to avoid violating anyone's copyrights on white noise) outside. The whole thing will be surrounded in a tin foil shell with a small iris-activated door.
Oh yeah, and I'll move my house to a remote island. Underground. Not in missile silo--they know about all those. It will be my own hole, with recycled air, long-term water and food storage, and thermal power generation.
In your future days of mandatory digital compliance, on some rare night, you may have sweet dreams of someone on a remote island whose voice still echoes through the sprinkling mist.
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
Damn right, if you won't let me see breast on Superball, you better let me skip those monestat commercials.
Why doesn't someone sue Disney, Universal, or the other Major DVD producers?
After all their TV ads almost all say OWN on DVD today.
It will never work. You aren't licensed to use their commercials as evidence in a court of law.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
If the FBI is busy busting us, then they're not watching commercials and the whole case can probably be thrown out of court.