RIAA Sends Letter to Senate Supporting INDUCE Act

The Importance of writes "Slashdot has discussed the INDUCE Act before (and here and here). The act would make 'intentionally inducing' infringement a crime, but defines inducing so broadly that all sorts of technology is threatened. A little over a week ago, tech companies and civil rights groups sent a letter to some senators asking for hearings on the bill. A couple of days ago, the RIAA responded with their own letter sent to all 100 senators. There is also an abridged and annotated version of the RIAA letter. LawMeme has put together an index to INDUCE Act analysis."

Re:Freedom of music and my responses to their lett

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe that if we can moderate that letter from the RIAA, it would have a score of (-1, Troll).

Ready to help.

[kyknos.org]

If some American citizen is going to emigrate i can help to start a new life in a free country ;)

RIAA Inducement to Crime

[Nom du Keyboard]

The RIAA companies sells CD's at prices far above the cost of manufacture + royalities.

This induces people to commit crimes by copying and sharing these recordings that would never exist if the RIAA didn't sell them in the first place.

ARREST THE RIAA!

its a great idea

[Anonymous Coward]

We urge you to support it. It is intended to target bad actors only

Bruce Willis and and Sylvester Stallone were unavailable for comment.

Time to wake up?

[Turn-X Alphonse]

When will the senators etc. relise EVERYONE hates the RIAA and similar groups. If they support something then everyone else should be anti it. It's like Microsoft or the bogey man. All really evil but no one who can do anything about them ever sees them.

Didn't RTFA? Quick Version

[Xeth]

Dear Duly Brib^H^H^H^HElected Members of Congress,

lies, lies, contrived statistics, spin, I'm a tool, lies, emotional evocation, misrepresentation, lies, lies, damn lies

Sincerely,

Mitch Bainwol

INDUCE act, otherwise known as the

[Anonymous Coward]

Bureaucrats United with Lazy Lobbyists Stopping Helpful Information Technology act.

Re:Freedom of music and my responses to their lett

[TedCheshireAcad]

trick tricksy RIAA tries to tricks us. wants to steal our PRECIOUS.

Maybe they should let it pass!

[Xaroth]

According to this proposed law, anything that can be used for or is used in the infringing of copyrighted material can be construed as inducing infringement.

In order to infringe on copyrighted material, you need to have the material itself and a device or method to copy it.

Therefore, copyrighted material is an inducement to infringe.

Copyrighted material can't be copied if it's not created.

Artists create copyrighted material.

They are therefore contributing to the infringement of copyrighted material.

The RIAA can only exist if it supports artists.

The RIAA supports artists who create copyrighted material.

The RIAA are therefore contributing to the infringement of copyrighted material.

Because of this, the RIAA should be ordered to stop supporting artists as a result of this law.

Since the RIAA cannot support artists, it must cease to exist.

Hooray!

Harass them

[gelfling]

I'm all for electronic harassment.

Record all of your complaints in wav format, copywrite your own words, and email them to the RIAA.

Proposal for another new law

[91degrees]

The stupid analogy act.

Whereby, if someone uses that stupid shoplifting analogy to compare to copyright infringement, they get sentenced to 1000 years and regular beatings with a baseball bat.

Advantage of being a 3rd world country

[losttoy]

Hahahaha!!!
For once, being in a third world country feels great. No big brother watching while you pirate to your heart's content!! :))

Law enforcement in countries like China/India is especially more difficult given the HUGE populations and meagre resources/understanding/moral (read corruption) at the disposal of the law enforcement agencies to go after the culprits.

This will force the music and software companies to sell there wares for cheaper and more reasonable prices. If they don't, then won't sell at all, like now where most of us simply pirate all the stuff!!

Three cheers for poverty and bad law enforcement!!

Sounds Reasonable

[MosesJones]

Agree totally. Speech and singing should also be banned as people often SING copies of songs, WITHOUT PAYING AN ADDITIONAL FEE.

-- Yours the RIAA

Re:Sounds Reasonable

[arieswind]

oh hell, the human race is obviously a bunch of cheating lying stealing bastards, why dont we just outlaw them? "dear consumer, it is now illegal to live, your existence is inducing piracy because of human nature, please throw yourself on the enclosed sword, love, the riaa"

Re:Maybe they should let it pass!

[smatt-man]

Does that mean I'm illeagle? I can hear the copyrighted music in my ear and (very badly) reproduce it from my mouth.

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The real answer:

[rewt66]

To attract women! (Except for the women musicians, of course...)

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Re:A rearguard strategy.

[thetoastman]

Puts on my Jonathan Swift costume . . .

I know . . . . let's do this . . .

Outlaw high speed Internet connections!!

Can you imagine trying to download the latest pr0n, err . . . RIAA product . . . at 56 Kb???

And since I only get 24.4 Kb via dialup where I live, ouch!

Hmmm - Brittney Smears in slow motion . . . Speedoman 2 in slow motion . . . . (btw - I liked Spiderman 2).

Then we could have roving bands of cops frisking random folk for R/W CDs and DVDs . . . preventing them from being shared the 'old fashioned' way.

There are reasons for piracy, and there are reasons for declining sales of RIAA garbage, TV garbage, and MPAA garbage.

Wow - repetition is a nice tool.

Yes folks, it's because 90% of the stuff being sold, marketed, and stuffed down our throats today is garbage.

There's another rant or two buried in here, but since this is just a "Modest Proposal", I'll leave that to another time.

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Haha.... wallow in the mess you have created

[agraupe]

I live in Canada! Yipee, none of this RIAA bullshit. I firmly think we should enact a law that would allow the police to shoot Orrin Hatch on sight.

you are correct!

[zogger]

"Being a Democrat or Republican is not like being Borg"

This is true! The Borg are neither bribable nor blackmailable!