[Ecommerce] DOJ Report and some comments

[Manon Ress]

Sarah sent me this (I took out the attachment and added a link)

To Ecommerce:

Report is attached.   Among many points, the Report:

  Endorses RIAA's position in RIAA v. Verizon

* Rejects HR 107

* Supports S. 2560 -- the Induce Act

* Note (p34) the report suggests giving DOJ the ability to bypass
tradition Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty processes to allow "IP
Attaches" to collect information directly from foreign ISPs.  US ISPs
would then logically be forced to respond directly from foreign
"attaches" who could also bypass the process of going through DOJ.

* Page 46 endorses HR 4077-- lowering the criminal threshold for passive
distribution from wilfulness to a "knowingly making available"

* P 47-48 proposes for future legislation the ability to amend the Federal
Wiretap Act for voice intercepts involving serious IP crimes.

Sarah

Sarah B. Deutsch
Vice President & Associate General Counsel
Verizon Communications
Phone: 703-351-3044
Fax:      703-351-3670
sarah.b.deutsch@verizon.com

Here's our link to Report:

http://www.cptech.org/ip/texts/intelproperty.pdf


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Manon Anne Ress
Consumer Project on Technology
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