Comments on: Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 will crack down on file-sharing

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Wow that did not take them long. I really love how he adds public heath and safety in the equation copyright infringement has never been a problem with health and safety can you say BULL SHIT!.

By: prh99

prh99 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

There seems to be the incorrect notion that the internet was some how immune from snooping before yesterdays CALEA extension deadline expired. This still requires law enforcement to initiate the a wiretap yesterdays article seemed to imply that the RIAA or MPAA will eventually be able to do wiretaps on their own. It should be noted this is not the first attempt to ram through such provisions they tried for similar provision last year around this time. So I am not entirely sure how much CALEA had to do with this.
http://news.com.com/Congress+readies+broad+new+digital+copyright+bill/2100-1028_3-6064016.html

Gonzales has tried at least three time counting this latest attempt to make a crime of “attempting to infringe”. He tried with a propose in 2005 http://static.publicknowledge.org/pdf/20051110-doj-ip-prot-act.pdf again in 2006 as mentioned above and now this. Indeed this propose seems to be mostly a resubmission of his 2005 proposal except then it was called the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2005. Also the NET Act of 1997 provides for forfeiture and destruction in criminal cases.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@prh99

I dint mean to imply that the RIAA or the MPAA could snoop on their own rather I meant to note that they would now be able to lobby the govt to better enforce copyright rules and regulations being that the technology to better do so is now in place.

Now they can just whine before the Feds in Senate hearings about all of the supposed losses due to piracy and the govt could then take action.

Or more simply put before the RIAA and MPAA had a mere IP address to go on and then would try to get your ID via your ISP. Now they can just sit back and leave it to the hands of law enforcement.

Lets just hope nothing comes of this proposed legislation once again as you have pointed out and things stay as they are.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

You would think there would be a law against resubmitting laws untill it is accepted into law.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Or how about leaving laws to the lawMAKERS?

By: MrGonzo

MrGonzo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

seriously what does this mean for canadiens?

By: Signa

Signa — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

it means theres going to be a lot more Canadians.

By: Burd

Burd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

As usual this is a law that would be virually impossible to enforce. First of all a good portion of the file sharers are outside of the United States’ juristiction. They would have to get all the other nations to cooperate (fat chance of that!) Secondly where are all the personnel to do this going to come from? As it is now the RIAA and MPAA sue only a very small fraction of file sharers. It is purely symbolic. Are we going to pull agents off of child abductions? terrorists watches? enforcing immigration on the border? going after hardened criminals who rob banks and such? serial killers? Which area is going to be cut back so that agents can watch the internet for possible copyright infringement? And all you have to do is attempt to do it…not actually do it. Before long they’ll want to wire into our brains to see what crimes we “might” commit during our lifetimes (wasn’t there a movie like that?) And turning a civil case into a criminal one is a big dangerous step. I hope Gonzalez gets canned before too long. He has a big scandal on his back with the firing of those judges who were making the wrong rulings as far the Repulicans believed. This law is just another slap in the face to the people favoring the corporations over the populace. Another good reason to vote when the time comes.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@Burd

Amen.

By: StormNinja

StormNinja — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Speaking only for myself I will not go back to the old way of acquiring music and if that means going outlaw then so be it!