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Senate Passes Scaled-Back Copyright Bill

Posted by michael on from the making-sausage dept.

Finalnight writes "The Senate has voted to outlaw several favorite techniques of people who illegally copy and distribute movies, but has dropped other measures that could have led to jail time for Internet song-swappers..."

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  1. Is it better... by cheeseSource · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That only some of these got through than all of them or is it worse that any got through at all.

    I call it the "Be glad we only broke your kneecap. We were going break both your arms as well." approach.

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    (Sponsored by cheeseSource for President 2012)