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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.'"
.."Oh shit"
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
There's a conflict of interests at work here, senator is just scared that everyone will download his awesome music for free.
Help!! I am a citizen of the USA who would like to run emule and download things Orrin Hatch says I can't.
Do you live in a copyright free country? I will pay you monthly via paypal for the ability to run eMule on your machine (say $3 a GB) and the ability to sftp downloaded files my computer. I want to watch classic films and mickey mouse cartoons and hard to find rare video footage without the Senate subcommittee on mind control and groupthought ordering my arrest and imprisonment.
Maybe you should have invested in a local prison or not bought a location so close to a Walmart?
"Where did this apple come from?"
--Alan Turing
From TFA The mounting dangers that piracy poses to the U.S. economy helped spur the move, Specter said after the announcement. "It's a big, tough subject. We lose billions each year. We have a national treasure named Orrin Hatch who is happy to take over the subcommittee, and I was happy to establish it," Specter said.
Lets treat him like treasure and bury him *DUCKS*
You try to tell them don't have sex with your cousin. But do they listen?
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Hey, you're just an atheist, nihilist, anti-christain, anti-semite!
You're just out to destroy the divine project of all those who are holy! The US and Israel and all their courageous militarymen, gracious transnational financiers and conservatives in general will achieve Zion in the Holy Lands! It will happen, but God needs us, and our nations, to make it happen! He needs us because he's weak and needs our hel-NO, wait I mean! He's strong! I mean eht! ghcht! Gah!
That cinches it - I'm going to Euro-troll for karma from here on out. I've resisted for years, but it's so goddam easy to spout some ridiculously uninformed anti-American opinion and get an insightful mod I can no longer stay away.
I just must rememeber using stilted phrases and creative unspellings while I tell people what to do. Also have to remember the elitist superior attitude.
a seahorse is not related to a horse
I like the way you slipped your creationist propoganda into this thread.
In July of 2000, IIRC, Orrin Hatch provided a moment of political awakening for many Slashdotters. During the Napster hearings, ol' Orrin stood up and asked if Napster couldn't just "track people by their intellectual property address"?
I think of it as "the collective face-slap heard round the world."
-Waldo Jaquith
Senator Hatch has a website that hosts his music, which was pointed on another thread for this article.
So I decided to take a hexeditor to his mp3 files, just to see LAME 3.93 all over the files at the end. LAME is licensed under the LGPL, and is in violation of certain patents to my understanding.
However the Senate and the House should be turned into Gladiator Games, give Orrin Hatch a sword and let him fight out with some pro-file sharing guy for top dog.....
I'm all for that since the Democrats would probably win. I mean think about it, sure a lot of us have reputations as wimps or liberal pansy's. But I don't see nearly as many Chickenhawks among Democrats as I do among Republicans. Hell, the only thing the Republicans would have going for them is a certain senator from Arizona.... aww shit, maybe this isn't such a good idea after all.....
(Ah, I live to walk on the fine line between funny and flamebait...)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.