Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety'

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has declared that copyright infringement 'substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the quality of life and community peace, lawful commerce in the county, property values, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare of the county's citizens, its businesses and its visitors.' You might laugh, but that means they can close up a property for up to one year for violations of the anti-infringement ordinance [PDF] and the owner can be fined $1,000 for each infringing work produced on site. Not to mention the penalties in the PRO-IP Act, which just sailed through the House."

Comments

Re:So what's it gonna take...

[hardburn]

One little tidbit: at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, Jack Valenti personally asked Bill Clinton to become the next president of the MPAA. Consider accordingly.

Re:kaliphornia

[Wiseman1024]

You're going to complain about corporations' corrupt power to a bigger instance of corporations' corrupt power? Good luck with that.

Lol land of the free.

Re:This always happens

[swillden]

It is utterly unrealistic to claim that nothing good has come of expanding the vote to include people of every race, gender, and income group.

I dunno. There's some pretty good evidence that allowing women to vote causes government to explode in size and scope. Women like to take care of people and be taken care of, so they vote for big, powerful nanny states, not realizing that they're going to hate the cold and impersonal nature of the thing they created.