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Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer
Over the weekend we posted a story about a new copyright bill that creates a new govt. agency in charge of copyright enforcement. Kevin Way writes "In particular, the bill grants this new agency the right to seize any computer or network hardware used to "facilitate" a copyright crime and auction it off. You would not need to be found guilty at trial to face this penalty. You may want to read a justification of it, and criticism presented by Declan McCullagh and Public Knowledge." Lots of good followup there on a really crazy development.
I predict that many Republicans will oppose this bill, not because they are opposed to the idea of protecting an industry legislatively, but, becuase the industry that they would be tasked to protect is one that generally opposses them. I mean, what happens to the big bad liberal media if it goes belly up because it is obsolete? Kinda hard to make pro-socialist stuff, if your target audience doesn't want to pay for it...
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Yes, because with drug seizures, .* registration, etc.. the point isn't to Think of the Children, the point is gov't income.
Ever complain when they infringe upon the 2nd?
.gov to infringe the 2nd, you can't complain when they come for the other 9.
If not, or if you've ever encouraged the