Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments
typodupeerror delete not in

+-   PRO-IP & PIRATE Act Fused into EIPRA-> on Friday July 25 2008, @05:12PM I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

Submitted by I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property on Friday July 25 2008, @05:12PM
money
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) & Arlen Specter (R — PA) have just sponsored a new bill, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008, which would combine the worst parts of the PRO-IP Act and the PIRATE Act. The basic idea is pretty simple: expand the Federal government to create something like the Department of Homeland Security for IP. The Copyright Czar then polices the internet and then clogs the courts with thousands of civil lawsuits against individual infringers so the RIAA doesn't have to. Feel free to contact your representatives with your feelings about this bill. Right now, they believe that this bill will 'protect jobs.'"
Link to Original Source
submission

This discussion was created for logged-in users only, but now has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
 Full
 Abbreviated
 Hidden
More
Loading... please wait.
I am a traffic light, and Alan Ginzberg kidnapped my laundry in 1927!