Congress Creates Copyright Cops

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Not satisfied with pitiful potential penalties of $150,000 for infringing upon a $0.99 song, Congress is proposing new copyright cops in the "'PRO IP' Act of 2007, specifically the creation of the Office of the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative (USIPER). They also feel that the authorities need the authority to seize any computers used for infringement and to send copyright cops abroad to help other countries enforce US laws. MPAA boss Dan Glickman praised the bill saying that, 'films left costs foreign and domestic distributors, retailers and others $18 billion a year,' though Ars points out that it allegedly costs the studios only $6 billion."

Comments

Re:Cool. Another War

[Colin Smith]

War on goverment? oh no. The government is your friend. There are too many "The government should" people out there.

Re:Especially scary

[eiapoce]

I'd like to comment on your lefty reply. You forgot to mention that was a "Democratic" president (Clinton) that enhacted the DMCA Bill. A bill that as a slashdotter you should know has made difficult scientific research and lead also to temporary imprisonments of foreing scientist. A bill that causes daily headhackes for every researcher that wants to get a paper published and in the long run has proben only beneficiary to the lawyers selling consuelling to those people in need. I'd like you to see if by "coincidence" there was some strange relation between entertainment industry founding of the democratic governors that year.

I'd like also to invite you to read the subject of the conversation. In the article is clearly stated that this absurdity is being carried on by a BIPARTISAN group. BIPARTISAN means that someone external proposed them to meet and organized a bill that strangely both democrats and republican agree...

You might not like Bush and that's your right. But you can't blame just him cause that's plainly a idiot thing to do. And surely you can't expect the next one to be better. Now the first time the Democrats are choosing between a woman and a black guy called OBAMA (OSAMA?), please lose your hopes: them both have a terrible record of campaing contributions from the entertainment industry (yep, corporations)

P.S. In Europe We are in bad conditions. Maybe you just dont realize that there is the same kind of arrangments going on in Bruxelles because the media auto-censorship and the lack of a law for public access to EU documents.