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New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the things-that-make-you-go-hmmm dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Representative Lamar Smith is sponsoring the Intellectual Property Protection Act. The new bill is designed to give the Justice Department 'tools to combat IP crime' which which are used to 'quite frankly, fund terrorism activities,' according to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Among the provisions is lowering the standards for 'willful copyright violation' and increasing the corresponding prison term to 10 years." More information is also available at publicknowledge.org.

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  1. Re:Thank you Lamar (What an appropriate name) by reldruH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Be careful with how loosely you throw around the 1984 references. You never know when Big Brother is watching...

    --
    I've always pictured the color of OS zealotry as a sort of bright flamingo pinkish hue
  2. Re:Fund terrorism? by plankrwf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, obviously open source is going to help terrorits:
    imagine all the extra time they need not spend on system administration:
    obviously they would have more time actually planning terroristic attacks!

    Would be a thought though: give all the Al Quaida's of this world the newest of newest of computers
    with all the newest propriotory software, just to see them fail as a terroristic
    club seeing that they spend all their time actually getting their systems up and running.
    We would see newsitems like:
    ThisJustIn: Bin Laden proclaims next suicide hit to occur moments after Vista finally released.

    Roel