Orrin Hatch to Lead Senate Panel on Copyright, Patents

PontifexPrimus writes "Senator Orrin Hatch, (in)famous for his idea of destroying the computers of copyright violators is to head a Senate 'panel, which will have jurisdiction over copyright, trademark and patent law, as well as treaties intended to protect American intellectual property overseas.' Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all. Oh, and this looks like another field day for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"

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Re:Capitalism

[Lord Bitman]

okay, do you need to hold my post up to a mirror or read it backwards or just add its binary value to a random number generator in order to get your interpretation out of it?

IP law as it is is not a good thing. Fucking duh. It is anti-capitalist. Fucking duh. You seem to have missed the point: These laws are being made to favor corporations instead of citizens- I propose you incorporate.

There cannot be anything illegal about selling license to use things without selling physical media- because that ability is the basis of all copy-protection.

There cannot be anything illegal about distributing files which you own the rights to.

Act quickly and become a player before the game is over. That is the point. Yes, laws can be passed which would make it illegal to create a business which distributes content like this- but it has not happened yet. The only way to prevent it is to do the capitalist thing. If the government is only going to look at people who make money, Make some money.

321 studios is in no way related to what I proposed. They were doing pretty much the exact opposite of what I just said. 321 Studios would not be in competition with Disney when their product was used as intended. That's pretty much as unrelated as you can get.