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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.
The English department at Harvard has contacted the DOJ and urged civil prosecution against you for that run on sentence.
In their summary affidavit, they referenced the great harm to any child that read your comment, and now thinks it is okay to have 95 words in a row without a period or semicolon. In addition starting a paragraph with "So" is just bad sport.
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, it gets worse.
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