Posted on 04/24/2006 7:51:04 AM PDT by FewsOrange
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite. A proposed copyright law seen by CNET News.com would expand the DMCA's restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police more wiretapping and enforcement powers.
The draft legislation, created by the Bush administration and backed by Rep. Lamar Smith, already enjoys the support of large copyright holders such as the Recording Industry Association of America. Smith is the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees intellectual-property law.
Smith's press secretary, Terry Shawn, said Friday that the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006 is expected to "be introduced in the near future."
"The bill as a whole does a lot of good things," said Keith Kupferschmid, vice president for intellectual property and enforcement at the Software and Information Industry Association in Washington, D.C. "It gives the (Justice Department) the ability to do things to combat IP crime that they now can't presently do."
During a speech in November, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endorsed the idea and said at the time that he would send Congress draft legislation. Such changes are necessary because new technology is "encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual-property theft," Gonzales said, adding that proceeds from the illicit businesses are used, "quite frankly, to fund terrorism activities."
The 24-page bill is a far-reaching medley of different proposals cobbled together. One would, for instance, create a new federal crime of just trying to commit copyright infringement. Such willful attempts at piracy, even if they fail, could be punished by up to 10 years in prison...
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This is becoming tiresome. My statement was not false.
>You could make a copy, if you did so before you agreed to Sony's prompt to install their software. You had to agree to that, remember?
There was nothing in the EULA that said anything about illegal and potentially dangerous spyware, only mention of "copy protection." Are you actually suggesting that XCP customers agreed to the installation of illegal and potentially dangerous spyware by virtue of their acceptance of copy protection? You've got to be kidding.
So I say, again: one could NOT make a LEGAL COPY of PURCHASED media on Sony BMG music CDs with XCP without installing ILLEGAL and POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SPYWARE on their computers.
>And even then you could have made legal copies.
There is no "then" if one didn't want illegal and potentially dangerous spyware on their computers.
>Even with the "evil" Sony rootkit, you could have "ripped" copies.
Not without installing illegal and potentially dangerous spyware on their computer.
Do I have to repeat the same statement of fact in every post? Why is this necessary? Are you five years old?
Weak arguments indeed. If you look at the draft, it amends the current legislation, mainly toughening the penalties and expanding the definitions of what infringement is, far beyond the original UN scope. Underneath, though, the original UN intent is still intact...give the government new and sweeping powers to confiscate property and ignore due process.
The intent of the law is exactly what the UN wants, and lackeys like yourself are salivating at the prospect of it's passing. You're marching in lockstep with your buddies from Vietnam and Iran who are also members of WIPO.
One world, one law, huh? That's just the way you want it, right? Keep defending it if you want, just like you defend Planned Parenthood and look the other way when Microsoft pumps money into China. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
"Are you five years old?"
Bingo! We have a winner!
You can repeat it as many times as you want to LOL, but you still obviously don't get it.
You had to accept their EULA, before it ever even installed. Before you did that, you could have "ripped" as many copies as you wanted.
Plus you did agree to the EULA, don't forget. Even then you could have made legal copies.
But go ahead, repeat yourself again LOL.
Those countries are standardizing their governments on open source, just like Cuba and China, as you well know.
imho.
OUTRAGEOUS.
The solution is worse than the problem.
Hideous.
How about some key links to send our outrage to?
Wow. This is incredible. You're defending the placement of a rootkit. What was that the overseas Sony BMG executive said? Something like, 'most people don't know what a rootkit is anyway, so why would they care?'
Your posts place you firmly on his side. Are you proud?
No, I'm just pointing out your factual inaccuracies. And reminding everyone this rootkit isn't anywhere near as damaging as those created using open source like the "FU" rootkit.
The damage was remediated by quick work producing removal tools.
The Sony execs should have gone to prison. I will never buy another Sony product again and have felt free to copy their CDs and DVDs sense. The originals are dangerous.
No factual inaccuracies, but even if your unbelievably wrongheaded defense of the rootkit was true so far as the copying aspect--and I maintain you're 100% wrong on that--it doesn't change much. I asked you to point me to the part of the DMCA that says that it's okay to circumvent copy protection, but I have seen no response to that request.
If you'd like to tell us how detecting and removing the rootkit does not constitute circumventing the copy protection, go right ahead.
Sure, rootkits are considered malware, and removing malware is only circumventing malware. Is anyone going to ever take them to court over this? If not, why not?
Im sorry where in the DCMA is an exception made for Malware, where is the definition of malware and where is the definition of rootkit..
Anywhere you want you want to look rootkits are defined as malware, which is why no one has or ever will be indicted for removing them.
You guys are the biggest jokes on the planet, claiming the FBI will be going after people who remove rootkits rather than those who are unleashing them.
But I'm glad you don't realize how foolish you look, since that is exactly why more and more laws like this will continue to pass.
Enjoy the fruits of your labor LOL!
The thread is about DMCA, the UN crafted legislation that was heartily gobbled up by you and your one-world commrades. Try to stay on the subject.
Exactly right. If Sony makes the product, they pretty much define what their copy protection is.
There's no exception, as far as I can see, in the DMCA I or DMCA II for rootkits.
Just like GE and the UN want it.
The UN is now pushing open source with their new agency dedicated to it. They aren't involved in this new law at all are they?
Oh, and have the FBI done ANYTHING to Sony for releasing this rootkit on it's unwary consumers?
Believe me, if this law is enforced, and eventually, despite your protests, it will be, the enforcement will come against consumers, not producers of rootkits like Sony.
Keep your head in the sand, though, and keep in lockstep with the UN as our rights to privacy and due process are slowly eroded away.
You haven't shown any damages done to anyone by Sony. Open Source rootkits, like FU, are extremely destructive or are used to steal information from the user. I'm sure the FBI is rightfully cocentrating their efforts on those. I guess you could sue Sony, but since there were no damages, then there's the issue the user agreed to the Sony prompt of course.
Obviously, you aren't too concerned. You seem to like the UN and the laws that it passes that erode our national sovereignty. You've defended this one to the hilt.
And, if open source IS involved in this new law, is that then enough reason for you to then condemn it? If you successfully prove that open source is involved in the new law (whatever THAT means), then I'll be expecting you to declare DMCA II evil, like you do anything or anyone else invloved with open source. I doubt you will, because your position on anything is completely inconsistent.
BTW, saying that open source causes rootkits is like saying guns cause crime. Of course, you probably think that too, in keeping with your support of UN laws for the US. One world, one government, eh?
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