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Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement
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."
Do they give the Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
Read the title again: "Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement".
That wouldn't be "Gates", would it?
I call "dibs" on IP 127.0.0.1
Any IP infringers out there...be warned...that's MY IP you're infringing upon
IP was ours first! INTERNET PROTOCOL. Get your own! Intellectual Property my ass.
...people could now be charged with criminal copyright infringement even if such infringement has not actually taken place.Reading that made me want to vomit. That's how I learned the link needed to be corrected: "Intellectual Property Enhanced Criminal enforcement ACt". Somehow, it just seems fitting to call it the IPECAC bill. Besides, what did you expectorant?
<groan>
Borglary - the act of assimilating all of someone's stuff into your own collective.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Does nobody read TFA anymore? It's the Intellectual Property Enhanced Criminal enforcement Act of Congress ... IPECAC for short.
Breakfast served all day!
Another week or two later:
"Asshole ruins joke, completely missing the point"
Slow Down, Cowboy! It's been 60 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment.
I feel like death on a soda cracker.
Pah -- Yank amateurs. The UK courts last week imprisoned 3 Muslim kids
for possession of material deemed to promote terrorism!
You have a long way to go to catch up with our pervasive authoritarianism