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PRO-IP and PIRATE Acts Fused Into New Bill

Posted by Soulskill on from the when-legislation-attacks dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) have just sponsored a new bill, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008, which would combine the worst parts of the PRO-IP Act and the PIRATE Act. The basic idea is pretty simple: expand the Federal government to create something like the Department of Homeland Security for IP. The Copyright Czar then polices the internet and clogs the courts with thousands of civil lawsuits against individual infringers so the RIAA doesn't have to. Feel free to contact your representatives with your feelings about this bill. Right now, they believe the bill (PDF) will 'protect jobs.'"

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  1. kill by LogicallyGenius · · Score: -1, Troll

    i wonder when will people start killing these american senators who are doing things that people dont want. in democracy thats treason.

    1. Re:kill by Darkness404 · · Score: -1, Troll

      Well, we can re-elect new ones, but all of them are the same. I say. RMS for president! Put Torvalds, ESR and other open source figures in congress and we might have a decent government. But I don't see RMS campaign posters... yet.

      --
      Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
  2. Please don't contact your reps... by freedom_india · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please don't contact your congressmen and senators on stopping this bill. It doesn't matter whether you do a sit-in in front of their office or send in thousands of letters protesting this bill.
    This bill WILL BE Passes because the money-bags have already bought the senators.
    Don't you guys ever learn even after suffering multiple insults?
    1. No Impeachment of bush even though most senators swore to it.
    2. No arresting Karl Rove.
    3. No pro-consumer choice for DRM infested systems that hang us high (Yahoo and MSN)
    4. No relief from foreclosure for your homes and mine, but only to Countrywide and Fannie Mae.
    5. No relief from high gas prices by siccing the RICO act on Exxon.
    6. No free/low-cost medicare
    7. No stopping the war in Iraq.
    Take the hint: Your senators and congressmen and the president do NOT represent you. They are voted by you by "force". Just like you are forced to pay taxes but can't decide how it is spent.
    Stop posting, writing or protesting (by citizen-arresting karl rove???).
    You will only end up in prison or worse in Gitmo.

    Slave, pay your taxes and go home silently to enjoy the 500 channels.
    God save the King.

    --
    "Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
  3. A love letter... by crossmr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dear USA,

    Fuck off.

    Hugs n kisses,
    The rest of us

  4. Re:Protect jobs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pathetic slashdotters don't have nice jobs, houses or cars... They live on their moms' basements and download pr0n the whole day, because they are not able to create. So, that is why they are so upset when someone try to put a bill in place to protect the rights of real people, that create real things. Slashdotters then get crazy and begin to rant...

  5. Re:The solution is simple! by dword · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or, a lot simpler, stop copying music/movies illegally over the Internet.