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04-24-2006, 04:26 PM
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It's all just 1s and 0s Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: in the lab Posts: 4,414
|  Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006
to me seems like another big ut-oh similar to the DCMA Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill
by Declan McCullagh , Staff Writer, CNET News.com | Published: 4/23/06 Quote:
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.
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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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But one of the more controversial sections may be the changes to the DMCA. Under current law, Section 1201 of the law generally prohibits distributing or trafficking in any software or hardware that can be used to bypass copy-protection devices. (That section already has been used against a Princeton computer science professor, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov and a toner cartridge remanufacturer.)
Smith's measure would expand those civil and criminal restrictions. Instead of merely targeting distribution, the new language says nobody may "make, import, export, obtain control of, or possess" such anticircumvention tools if they may be redistributed to someone else.
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04-24-2006, 09:58 PM
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Smith's measure would expand those civil and criminal restrictions. Instead of merely targeting distribution, the new language says nobody may "make, import, export, obtain control of, or possess" such anticircumvention tools if they may be redistributed to someone else.
| So where does that leave people that honestly just want to back up there software, music, movies?
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04-25-2006, 06:07 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Harper
So where does that leave people that honestly just want to back up there software, music, movies? | On the wrong side of the law.
Looks like it doesn't matter what the reasoning is.
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04-25-2006, 07:42 PM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,346
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build more prisons...
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04-25-2006, 08:49 PM
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Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,603
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Yup, since we dont have enough prisons to house everyone considering they are overflowing with stupid offenses anyway.
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04-25-2006, 08:58 PM
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The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet Posts: 4,370
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there goes our tax dollars.....
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04-25-2006, 08:59 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NW. w00t. Posts: 1,151
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Yea, that's a straight up joke.
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04-25-2006, 09:08 PM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,346
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Quote: Originally posted by zmatt
there goes our tax dollars..... | we could just take it from the pointless war fund. | |
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04-25-2006, 10:32 PM
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The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet Posts: 4,370
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"pointless" isnt how i would put it but since we cannot discuss politics i wont go any further.
riddle me this why are we arresting thousands of drug adicts instead of the few drug lords? if we decapitate the snake then there is no reason to aresst someone who is addicted to something they literally cant get anymore. | |
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