Congress Pressures DoJ With PIRATE Part II

Anonymous Pirate writes "Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) have re-introduced the 'PIRATE Act' (pdf) to Congress. According to Ars Technica, the purpose of this act is to get the DoJ to go after individual copyright infringers. It would allow the Department of Justice to bring civil lawsuits instead of criminal ones so that they would be able to prosecute copyright infringers with only a minimal burden of proof, rather than the heavier burden required for criminal prosecution." Took a long time to do a sequel; we first talked about this proposal quite some time ago.

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imagine you are a game maker

[hoyeru]

and you make a hawt new game and you offer it for sale. Yet it gets copied and shared the same week by thousands of people all over the net. You would be singing a different song then my friend. Name calling is easy.

Re:how much are companies losing?

[Dunbal]

If I was an artist of some kind today I'd be really worried about all the people making copies of my work and "sharing" them with their friends over the net.

Then you deserve to starve to death. There's no reason why any "artist" can't make MORE money than under a record label off the net. Change with the times, we are SICK AND TIRED of paying $15 to the fucking middleman just to keep him supplied with exotic cars, whores, and cocaine.

But then again, you're just an industry shill.