Posted on 05/22/2011 9:03:17 AM PDT by RBW in PA
S.968, To prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of intellectual property, and for other purposes.
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Bad news. The reason why it will have the Government control the internet.. Not good.
This protects the internet the same way the mob give ‘protection’
I scanned the bill. How could the AG go after companies offshore? How could the US Giv’t prevent any off shore companies from using the Net ? The only way I can see is if the Gov’t controls what we can access.
CAn anyone explain how our gov’t can prevent access to off shore sites?
and why?
I think it’s tyrannous. Patent and copyright law has become so corrupt that we should scrap the whole thing and go back to near-copies of the Law of Queen Anne (the original copyright law: 14 years, extendible at the request of the author, not the author’s publisher, not the author’s literary estate, the author, period, for another 14 years) and the Statute of Monopolies of 1624 (the first parliamentary action to curtail the grant of monopolies by royal letters patent). Note the name — once up an time laws had honest names — Statute of Monopolies, the basis of all modern patent law in the English speaking world.
Given the present state of patent and copyright law, one would think the Constitution gave Congress the authority to “impede progress in Science and the Useful Arts by granting to commercial interests, for indefinitely extendable Times, exclusive right to the works of authors and inventors.”
The very notion of “intellectual property” is corrupt. Patent and copyright had existed for centuries before that phrase came to be applied to them, and were plainly recognized as monopolies granted by the state (whether the U.S. Federal Government or the British Crown or, probably the earliest example, the Doge of Venice), rather than as property in any ordinary sense. Almost every proposal to “strengthen the protection of intellectual property” is an attempt by existing commercial interests to gain state protection for an existing business model against potential competition or to extend the scope of a government-granted monopoly. It is anti-market, even if it can be portrayed as pro-business. Crony “capitalism” at its finest (or worst).
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