[A2k] Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  As an FYI:

"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."

Regards,

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