[governance] Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Linda and all,

  Good thinking!

  Of course I am no fan of the RIAA or for that matter their
bastard step child, the dreadful MPAA, and they are well
aware of it!  And yet ICANN's indirect funding largely comes
from paid lobbyist of these two disgraceful organizations, indirectly.
They are the modern day equivalents of the Sheriff of Sherwood
forest and his sleazy henchmen, IMO along with their ICANN
allies, the sleazy IPC.  Yet I do fully understand that they have
ligitimate membership protection interests to attend to, of which
I, nor any of our members would hope the IGC would have
any problem with.  It is the manner in which they go about exercising
those duties and interests that I, and our members have significant
differences with, this political maneuver not withstanding.

  It is difficult for me to understand how the Judiciary committee
could have approved such legislation for full consideration.  Perhaps
it is because their PAC's and political campaigns are receiving
copious donations for their re-election bids from these organizations?
So much for principals, and years/decades of modern jurist prudence,
if so, eh?  >:(

  To borrow and slightly modify a phrase:  "Cry havoc, let loose
the dogs of political war!"

ldmisekfalkoff at gmail.com wrote:

> 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,
> >
> > Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!)
> > "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
> >    Abraham Lincoln
> >
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> >
> > "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
> > liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
> > P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
> > United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
> > ===============================================================
> > Updated 1/26/04
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Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS.
div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail
jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com
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