... did we even bother to worry about voting down Fiorina for Senate then?
Great. After months trying to make sure Failorina didn't get to Capitol Hill, we find
it doesn't matter b/c her agenda's already in the White House. Fiorina doesn't even need to think about running for the top spot in two years, her agenda's already there.
It means anything George the 2nd wants it to.
You can't tell b/c that's how they want it,
the subject, amongst all the 'whereas not withstandings' and 'subsection A redesignated as subsection b', 'striking x/whatever/whoever and inserting y/whoever' so that you don't know what it means unless you read ALL it's predecessors, the word 'felony' seems to be the active change in wording from 'offense' to 'is a felony offense', aka anything they decide to pursue will be a felony.
(a) IN GENERAL.--Section 503(a) of title 17, United
15 States Code, is amended to read as follows:
16 ''(a)(1) At any time while an action under this title
17 is pending, the court may order the impounding, on such
18 terms as it may deem reasonable--
19 ''(A) of all copies or phonorecords claimed to
20 have been made or used in violation of the exclusive
21 right of the copyright owner;
22 ''(B) of all plates, molds, matrices, masters,
23 tapes, film negatives, or other articles by means of
24 which such copies of phonorecords may be repro25
duced; and
6
O:\GRA\GRA08B64.xml S.L.C.
1 ''(C) of records documenting the manufacture,
2 sale, or receipt of things involved in any such viola3
tion, provided that any records seized under this
4 subparagraph shall be taken into the custody of the
5 court."
Which means they can impound your computer AND all your discs anytime the MPAA and RIAA feel like coming after you, though it'll prolly only be if you attract major attention to yourself by putting your entire music & video library on YouTube for everyone to download, or more likely Only If the label in question is targeting copies of specific albums or movies, they don't have time to chase down every Joe & Jane mp3er that rips a cd (Notice, for example, how WB DRM encodes every DVD & CD it presses, while most others don't even bother. Though, with WMP 11's spyware, that could change....)
"For purposes of this title, the term ''intellectual prop11
erty enforcement'' means matters relating to the enforce12
ment of laws protecting copyrights, patents, trademarks,
13 other forms of intellectual property, and trade secrets,
14 both in the United States and abroad, including in par15
ticular matters relating to combating counterfeit and in16
fringed goods."
Which, especially while it's so new a thing to the beaureaucracy,
it can mean what whomever is making the decisions wants it to mean.
Just as it always has.
Lawyers wrote it, and lawyers will decide who gets gone after.
Though, except for changing 'offense' to 'felony offense' and
adding the undefined 'intellectual property' to the general category of more
substantial (aka actual material goods), it doesn't seem to do anything except satisfy the
lawyers so that they can go and satisfy their clients that they're on top of things.
The only substantial section in this refers to:
" ''The Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue regula23
tions by which any performer may, upon payment of a
24 specified fee, be entitled to notification by United States
25 Customs and Border Protection of the importation of cop14
O:\GRA\GRA08B64.xml S.L.C.
1 ies or phonorecords that appear to consist of unauthorized
2 fixations of the sounds or sounds and images of a live mu3
sical performance.''.
Importation? That would be difficult to apply, at best.
And Customs has bigger fish to fry than GI Joe coming home with bootleg tapes (or now CDs) he bought from a music store in Dubai or Qatar while on liberty during a deployment overseas; back when cassettes were the preferred media, EVERY copy you could lay your hands on over there was an illegal copy.
I don't know of any occurrence where Customs officials actually went through the belongings of an entire troop or ship's company and confiscated every tape or disc that was clearly not pressed by the label.
In sum, it's just more legalese to make conditions mean whatever they want when the time is right.
Cuz there are far too many little fish in the sea to even begin to take them all on and deprive everyone of our PCs, MP3 players, and all our files and copies.
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... did we even bother to worry about voting down Fiorina for Senate then? Great. After months trying to make sure Failorina didn't get to Capitol Hill, we find it doesn't matter b/c her agenda's already in the White House. Fiorina doesn't even need to think about running for the top spot in two years, her agenda's already there.
btw, all, sorry about the format, just copied and pasted the pertinent sections w/o editing.
It means anything George the 2nd wants it to. You can't tell b/c that's how they want it, the subject, amongst all the 'whereas not withstandings' and 'subsection A redesignated as subsection b', 'striking x/whatever/whoever and inserting y/whoever' so that you don't know what it means unless you read ALL it's predecessors, the word 'felony' seems to be the active change in wording from 'offense' to 'is a felony offense', aka anything they decide to pursue will be a felony. (a) IN GENERAL.--Section 503(a) of title 17, United 15 States Code, is amended to read as follows: 16 ''(a)(1) At any time while an action under this title 17 is pending, the court may order the impounding, on such 18 terms as it may deem reasonable-- 19 ''(A) of all copies or phonorecords claimed to 20 have been made or used in violation of the exclusive 21 right of the copyright owner; 22 ''(B) of all plates, molds, matrices, masters, 23 tapes, film negatives, or other articles by means of 24 which such copies of phonorecords may be repro25 duced; and 6 O:\GRA\GRA08B64.xml S.L.C. 1 ''(C) of records documenting the manufacture, 2 sale, or receipt of things involved in any such viola3 tion, provided that any records seized under this 4 subparagraph shall be taken into the custody of the 5 court." Which means they can impound your computer AND all your discs anytime the MPAA and RIAA feel like coming after you, though it'll prolly only be if you attract major attention to yourself by putting your entire music & video library on YouTube for everyone to download, or more likely Only If the label in question is targeting copies of specific albums or movies, they don't have time to chase down every Joe & Jane mp3er that rips a cd (Notice, for example, how WB DRM encodes every DVD & CD it presses, while most others don't even bother. Though, with WMP 11's spyware, that could change....) "For purposes of this title, the term ''intellectual prop11 erty enforcement'' means matters relating to the enforce12 ment of laws protecting copyrights, patents, trademarks, 13 other forms of intellectual property, and trade secrets, 14 both in the United States and abroad, including in par15 ticular matters relating to combating counterfeit and in16 fringed goods." Which, especially while it's so new a thing to the beaureaucracy, it can mean what whomever is making the decisions wants it to mean. Just as it always has. Lawyers wrote it, and lawyers will decide who gets gone after. Though, except for changing 'offense' to 'felony offense' and adding the undefined 'intellectual property' to the general category of more substantial (aka actual material goods), it doesn't seem to do anything except satisfy the lawyers so that they can go and satisfy their clients that they're on top of things. The only substantial section in this refers to: " ''The Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue regula23 tions by which any performer may, upon payment of a 24 specified fee, be entitled to notification by United States 25 Customs and Border Protection of the importation of cop14 O:\GRA\GRA08B64.xml S.L.C. 1 ies or phonorecords that appear to consist of unauthorized 2 fixations of the sounds or sounds and images of a live mu3 sical performance.''. Importation? That would be difficult to apply, at best. And Customs has bigger fish to fry than GI Joe coming home with bootleg tapes (or now CDs) he bought from a music store in Dubai or Qatar while on liberty during a deployment overseas; back when cassettes were the preferred media, EVERY copy you could lay your hands on over there was an illegal copy. I don't know of any occurrence where Customs officials actually went through the belongings of an entire troop or ship's company and confiscated every tape or disc that was clearly not pressed by the label. In sum, it's just more legalese to make conditions mean whatever they want when the time is right. Cuz there are far too many little fish in the sea to even begin to take them all on and deprive everyone of our PCs, MP3 players, and all our files and copies.