By Richard Menta 4/20/05
Declan McCullagh’s article on CNET describes everything in lurid detail. Congress has passed a law – one that President Bush says he’ll sign – that gives the entertainment industry what it wants, the power to send file sharers to prison for a long time.
As Declan describes it the law is written quite broadly, enough so that “it could make a federal felon of anyone who has even one copy of a film, software program or music file in a shared folder and should have known the copyrighted work had not been commercially released.
Remember all those Fiona Apple Fans who are sharing her latest album that Sony has refused to release? These fans number in the millions. If Bush signs this bill every one of those individuals; children, mothers, grandparents, even the teenagers of a few of our Congressmen, will be subject to a prison sentence of three years and fines of up to $250,000.
It gets worse. They don’t even have to share the files online, just have possession.
Read the complete story @ MP3Newswire
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