[h3] DMCA revision proposal will jail Americans for "attempting" infringment [/h3] A new proposed set of amendments to the US's loathsome DMCA -- the 1998 copyright that paves the way to censorship, arresting security researchers, and creating monopolies for entertainment and DRM companies -- will make the law even worse. The Department of Justice has proposed the amendments to Congress, and IPac and others have action-pages up that will help you fight them. Texas's Lamar Smith sponsored a bill to pass the amendments into law. If you have the poser to campaign for Smith's opponent, the 2006 elections would be a good time to do so -- that guy's evidently so deep in Hollywood's pockets that he'll send Americans to jail for downloading music. The new law would send you to prison for [em style="font-weight: bold;"]attempting[/em] to infringe copyright. It would make it even more illegal to own tools that could be used to remove copy-restrictions, like DVD-ripping software -- it could even bust Symantec for making software that removed the Sony rootkit malicious software that the company distributed with its CDs last year: [/p][blockquote]This is a concerted effort to escalate Hollywood's war on America by creating a generation of criminals and sending them off to jail. That's right: the "Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006" (IPPA) would double the authorized prison terms for existing copyright infringement, create a host of new offenses, and establish a division within the FBI to hunt down infringers. The Members of Congress in the pockets of the Hollywood cartels want to divert $20 million a year and FBI agents from fighting real criminals [a href="vny!://knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=4548"]so they can go after people without computers[/a].
Read the entire idiotic bill [a href="vny!://ipaction.org/media/Draft_DOJ_IP_bill.pdf"]here[/a] or a summary [a href="vny!://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6064016.html?part=rss&tag=6064016&subj=news"]here[/a].
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