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Senate Passes Scaled-Back Copyright Bill
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..."
Not sure why you're unhappy about this bill passing. While I haven't read the entire bill for fun provisions, it does such dastardly things as make taping movies in theatres punishible by up to 3 years in jail. It also increases penalties on insiders who leak works before release date, and also on hackers who do the same. I cannot imagine what complaints people would have with these provisions. They sound kind of fair to me.