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November 19, 2004
just a reminder fight the power
Why the Intellectual Property Protection Act is lame and what you can do about it, is a piece from engadget that lays out the law, or some of it, and includes this link to fax your senator about your concerns. since it has been pointed out you people need hand holding, we're providing it! here's a break down of what your fighting:
The Piracy Deterrence and Education creates a new crime of “offering for distribution,” with jail terms up to five years. Since the crime doesn’t require proof of willfulness, the standard for other copyright crime, people could be prosecuted merely for having 1000 songs in their “share” folders, without intending that they be redistributed.
The Family Movie Act exempts from copyright or trademark litigation the skipping of portions of movies — but leaves makers and users of commercial-skipping technology open to lawsuits like the one that bankrupted ReplayTV.
The Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act presumes that anyone who has tried to protect his or her privacy by faking the WHOIS info in a domain name registration is willfully infringing copyright or trademark. (see letter from ACLU, ALA, CDT, EFF, and PK)
The PIRATE Act authorizes the Justice Department to step in for entertainment companies to prosecute civil copyright infringement cases.
An anti-counterfeiting provision would add new dangers to fair use of digital media (See Lessig blog)
Posted by parody at November 19, 2004 11:23 PM
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