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Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement

Posted by kdawson on from the intellectual-property-precrime dept.

ianare writes "H.R. 3155, the Intellectual Property Enhanced Criminal Enforcement Act of 2007, has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH). In most cases, the bill appears to simply double existing penalties. One big change however, is that people could now be charged with criminal copyright infringement even if such infringement has not actually taken place. Not surprisingly, the EFF has condemned the legislation."

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  1. Leave while you can by Koraq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm downright scared that so many comment on this is so humorous. If I lived in the US, I'd leave.

    In a country where you can be tried for crimes you did not even commit, justice is no longer even a fantasy.

    Thanks for a few hundred years of being a beacon if liberty! What a shame it would end like this. I admire the spirit that fueled men like Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Robert E. Lee. We have had liberal democracies back here in the old world thanks to them, Napoleon and some other guys. I don't know if shall laugh of cry.

    Yes, I'm damn serious. Leave while you can, soon it will be illegal too. :-(

    1. Re:Leave while you can by Oligonicella · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Oh fuckin' please. You'd be more convincing if your skreed contained a modicum of thought instead of simply OMG THE US IS A FASCIST STATE.

      You'd let attempted murderers go, I presume?