Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation 970
iman1003 writes "According to an article on Wired, the Senate may soon pass a bill labeled HR2391, a bill which lumps many other copyright bills. If passed the bill would "would criminally punish a person who 'infringes a copyright by ... offering for distribution to the public by electronic means, with reckless disregard of the risk of further infringement.'" In addition the bill would "permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited." The bill would also punish people "who bring a video camera into a movie theater to make a copy of the film for distribution" with up to three years imprisonment and fines. If any of this worries you please contact your Senators and Representatives and voice your concern."
If you wish to voice your concern, (Score:5, Funny)
Weird (Score:3, Funny)
It is a very strange idea. Why would you want to skip the sex scenes but not the ads??
Why did you guys vote Bush in anyway? Oh, that's right, you're stupid.
loophole (Score:3, Funny)
explicit gory scene. There, it's an ad, so you
can't bypass it.
Re:Buy your Senator a TiVo (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My what? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:hello 1984 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If you wish to voice your concern, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First Heinlein Reference (Score:3, Funny)
No, streetwalkers have standards.
if pvrs become outlawed (Score:3, Funny)
er... doesn't have quite the same ring, does it?
The rest I agree with, but.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:First Heinlein Reference (Score:2, Funny)
The bill would also permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited.
But I find the gore and the sexually explicit to be fine. It's the commercials that I find to be objectional!
Xysten---
Tag lines? We don't need no stinky taglines!!!
Re:Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! (Score:5, Funny)
In addition, the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will expire next year
I was getting pretty excited until I re-read the sentence properly. Darn!
Also Stated In The Bill (Score:2, Funny)
-phixxr
Re:Advertising makes the world go around (Score:3, Funny)
FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree.
I don't have a TV for over a year now, do you know how awesome that is? The only magic box that eats my time at home is my laptop.
But I don't listen to music either for 1.5 years now, so I have to enterntain myself sometimes... and go outside time to time....
Re:Illegal to skip commercials (Score:5, Funny)
The video player will detect your absense (scan room for open eyes, etc.) and will pause the commercial for you until you're right back and ready to see it... and you'll have to see it since once a commercial starts, the only way to get back to normal programming is to have your open eyes in front of the player for 5 minutes.
Re:Objectionable content? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Senate.Gov (Score:3, Funny)
That reminds me.. we should ask them to increase education funding as well. =)
(just a friendly tweak, don't everyone go get excited and moddy about it..)
Re:Senate.Gov (Score:2, Funny)
Dear Mister Senater,
Pleez doo not pas the bill to ban "Tivo". I fukcing hate comershals.
Luv Jimmy
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Re:As always, the rich get what they want (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory retort (Score:3, Funny)
You're just crazy.
Re:As always, the rich get what they want (Score:2, Funny)
I just wanna know if I can use the technology to increase the amount of sex in a movie...
You know, like adding back in the deleted lesbo scenes from Bound or Fatal Instinct, or the cut scene in The Haunting where Catherine Zeta Jones sucks Lili Taylor's toes?