[Ultra Sonic 007]

To see how stupidly broad the wording of this article, reading the following analysis at Joystiq.

Plus, the RIAA is involved, and things are usually sticky when they're involved.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Ping of interest.

[rabscuttle385]

Great. We can protect the **AA fat cats and hedge funds on Wall Street but we can’t even deal with Mexican military incursions on our southern border.

[mysterio]

There are some really neat forfeiture clauses in this legislation.

This bill is a piece of ****. Not surprised Bush signed it.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

“the wording of this article” should be “the wording of this legislation is”. Bleh.

[null and void]

Is there an over/under for how long it will take team 0bama to start using this to suppress free speech?

I’m going with noon EST tomorrow.

[mylife]

RIAA can kiss my Irish bum.They are Mafia

[rwfromkansas]

Stick it up your ass MPAA and RIAA.

I will archive a copy of a DVD I bought in response to this stupid law, you thugs.

[conservative cat]

No words, just: AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

[Slings and Arrows]

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[Alex Murphy]

ping to read later

[nothingnew]

Counterfeiting and piracy costs the United States nearly $250 billion annually, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Costs the US??????? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say this is about tax $$$ not coming in from sales.......think I'm wrong?

FMCDH(BITS)

[bamahead]

Public Knowledge particularly opposed a measure that allowed for the forfeiture of devices used in piracy...."Let's suppose that there's one computer in the house, and one person uses it for downloads and one for homework. The whole computer goes..."



Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!

[Gasshog]

bump4later

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"We are in the middle of something of a war here -- what some call "the copyright wars"; what the late Jack Valenti called his own "terrorist war," where the "terrorists" are apparently our kids."

Lawrence Lessig, in an article on copyright which makes a great deal of sense to me.

[kittycatonline.com]

Intellectual piracy? What!? I was hoping W had commissioned General Petraeus to go to Somalia and blow the pirates off the map!

[BlazingArizona]

U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law on Monday a controversial bill that would stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level.

Maybe...Bush is trying to see if he can drive his poll percentage below zero? This would beat even Carter.

[max americana]

> “Let’s suppose that there’s one computer in the house, and one person uses it for downloads and one for homework. The whole computer goes,” said Public Knowledge spokesman Art Brodsky.

So they’ll be arresting my computer and NOT me?? I’m cool with that. (sarc)
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On a lighter note: I couldn’t find the exact words on the bill. There’s bound to be loopholes in it, plus enforcement sounds more draconian than it should be.

[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

We've got pirates crossing our borders 24/7 but kissing up to the RIAA is more important. Our tax dollars hard at work as usual.

[ShadowAce]

[BuffaloJack]

The RIAA borders on being a terrorist group. They attack people who sometimes aren’t even computer literate and sue them for thousands based on supposition.
Their influences make expensive equipment work poorly and computer systems slow down all to further their own greedy interests. They even tax media arguing that it could be used for illegal purposes.
Nothing good can come from this law.