[governance] Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops

[ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com]

Dear Jeffrey,

Thanks for this early heads-up.

We should scamper over on the link and look for standards of putative
evidence triggering whatever takeovers of computers are contemplated.
Among other issues of course.

Best wishes, Linda M F.

On 9/12/08, Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> All,
>
>   Regarding rights, ( This one really bothers me ) see:
>
> "The Senate Judiciary Committee has
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080911-committee-amends-approves-enormous-gift-to-big-content.html
>
> approved the EIPA (the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
> Act of 2008), which would create copyright cops. And these cops would
> take over the RIAA's War on Sharing by filing civil lawsuits and using
> civil forfeiture laws to take any and all computers engaged in
> infringement. Worse, they would even seize computers (such as
> servers or database farms) that house the data of innocent people, and
> these people would not have any right to get their data back. At best
> the 'virtual bystanders' who happened to have data on a computer used
> for infringement could get a protective order saying that no one should
> go
> rummaging through their stuff. Perhaps the only good thing in the bill
> is that they've excluded DMCA circumvention from the list of grounds for
>
> seizure. So while the Senators believe this is needed to combat foreign
> copyright infringement cartels, it's entirely likely that innocent
> people will be harmed by this law."
>
> My notes:  Seems to me that sense the RIAA and the MPAA have
> been loosing cases all of the country, as have their counterparts in
> other countries, this legislation was borne from lobbying of those
> IP organizations and their members for extraordinary Rights, in that
> they cannot or will not protect their own IP rights in accordance
> with current law and available technology.
>
> Comments, thoughts, suggestions?
>
> Regards,
>
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