So apparently now congress wants to prosecute you for 'thinking' about commiting crimes. I guess they solved all the other problems in the US, so they have nothing better to do. I mean our streets couldn't be safer from violents crimes...They managed to get all the illegal drugs and guns off streets. We no longer have homeless people or families starving. Un-employment? That doesn't exist in this country anymore; congress took care of all that.
The law in question is Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 and it would make do the following.
Criminalize "attempting" to infringe copyright.
Create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software.
Permit more wiretaps for piracy investigations.
Allow assests to be seized more readily. - So now if you get caught up in a piracy suit, your going to be treated like a drug lord.
Increase penalties for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention regulations.
Add penalties for "intended" copyright crimes. - Everyone should welcome our new thought police.
Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America. - Why is Homeland security involved in software piracy? I thought the purpose of that agency was to protect this country from terrorist.
So not only are we going to punish thought crime and what big brother thinks you're going to do, but this bill would even require Homeland Security to inform the RIAA and associated companies if one of us imports discs with "unauthorized fixations of the sounds or sounds and images of a live musical performance." Why don't we just reorganize the RIAA as another extension of the federal government?
Do you keep receipts for all the software you buy? Can you prove you have a license? What if you had the CD, made mp3s to listen to you on your Ipod and the CD was destroyed? Well your now a piarate and you're going to jail.
If you aren't yet a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, now would be a real good time to start. http://www.eff.org/
Not even 250 years ago, the founders of this country willingly committed treason and went to war over laws such as this. Life imprisonment sounds a lot worse than taxation without representation to me. The general population of the United States are not served by this law. Criminalizing the whole population for something everyone does is so typical of dictatorships, let's not copy their ruthless style of governance anymore.
So welcome everyone to 1984...enjoy your stay
The law in question is Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 and it would make do the following.
Criminalize "attempting" to infringe copyright.
Create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software.
Permit more wiretaps for piracy investigations.
Allow assests to be seized more readily. - So now if you get caught up in a piracy suit, your going to be treated like a drug lord.
Increase penalties for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention regulations.
Add penalties for "intended" copyright crimes. - Everyone should welcome our new thought police.
Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America. - Why is Homeland security involved in software piracy? I thought the purpose of that agency was to protect this country from terrorist.
So not only are we going to punish thought crime and what big brother thinks you're going to do, but this bill would even require Homeland Security to inform the RIAA and associated companies if one of us imports discs with "unauthorized fixations of the sounds or sounds and images of a live musical performance." Why don't we just reorganize the RIAA as another extension of the federal government?
Do you keep receipts for all the software you buy? Can you prove you have a license? What if you had the CD, made mp3s to listen to you on your Ipod and the CD was destroyed? Well your now a piarate and you're going to jail.
If you aren't yet a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, now would be a real good time to start. http://www.eff.org/
Not even 250 years ago, the founders of this country willingly committed treason and went to war over laws such as this. Life imprisonment sounds a lot worse than taxation without representation to me. The general population of the United States are not served by this law. Criminalizing the whole population for something everyone does is so typical of dictatorships, let's not copy their ruthless style of governance anymore.
So welcome everyone to 1984...enjoy your stay
