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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. also on wired by Lord_Raptor · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65796,00 .html?tw=wn_tophead_7/: "A Kinder, Gentler Copyright Bill?"
    This is one of those cases, where the name says it all. What were they thinking?

    The official name is: Family Entertainment and Copyright Act

    How about if we add the fact that this is legislation:
    Family Entertainment and Copyright Act Legislation
    (FECAL). Guess that is fairly self-descriptive.