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New IP law gets nod by senate committee
THE ENTERTAINMENT industry is set to be given more powers under a new bill proposed by some of its tame chums in the US Senate.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said it has deep concerns about a bill passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee which the catchy title of S.3325, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008.
In a press release the EFF said that the bill proposes a number of alarming changes to copyright law.
A spokesman said that the bill is the Senate's gift to big content owners, which uses tax dollars for the entertainment industry to go after infringers.
One of the bill's most disturbing changes would give the Attorney General new powers to sue individuals on behalf of rights holders like the MPAA and the RIAA.
Bill proponents claim that these new powers, which would allow the AG to bring "milder" civil as well as criminal actions, are necessary because some offences don’t rise to the level of criminal conduct.
The EFF said that the Attorney General of the United States surely has better things to do than serving as muscle for the entertainment industry, especially when that industry is clearly well-capable of enforcing its copyrights on its own.
It said that the law could make taking your IPod to Mexico an infringement of the copyright owners’ distribution right and therefore illegal. µ
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I wonder if the MPAA / RIAA realize that their product is a luxury. If the luxury starts to have teeth and bite the owner then people will just stop purchasing that luxury. It's really that simple.
As a citizen of a country with the most corrupt government in the world, Im not surprised. Even though judges have been throwing these cases out, proving they are invalid, our government is now going to make it easier and give more lee way to these big companies. It just goes to show, our government will do anything you want, for the right price.
I thought Democraps were in control of the Senate? Surely THEY wouldn't act on behalf of the industry mafia, they are the party of the PEOPLE, the WORKERS.

I have a theory. The Senate is under the control of a Sith Lord. The Senators think that what they are doing is of their own free will, but in reality they are being manipulated...

Jim
Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.
Democrats being in control? Certainly its a technicality when it is only by a few seats. In order to pass anything you need a vast majority, which the democrats don't have.

NOW if you were talking a couple of years ago, when the Republicans were in control, then something could have been done... Then again, they had the power and nothing happened and now after they lost seats, nothing is happening either and one reason is because some reps can't bring themselves to cooperate.

Don't swallow your party propaganda. There are a lot of bad apples on both sides.

That being said, your hypothesis may be true and his name may be GB (or is it DC?)...
I know its hard to imagine, but, the Democrats have traditionally been even more in bed with the industry than the Republics. They are both sides of the same debased zinc coin.