Two bad tastes that will taste really bad together! PRO-IP and PIRATE Acts fused into new bill

[thewayne]

"Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) have just sponsored a new bill, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008, which would combine the worst parts of the PRO-IP Act and the PIRATE Act. The basic idea is pretty simple: expand the Federal government to create something like the Department of Homeland Security for IP. The Copyright Czar then polices the internet and clogs the courts with thousands of civil lawsuits against individual infringers so the RIAA doesn't have to. Feel free to contact your representatives with your feelings about this bill. Right now, they believe the bill (PDF) will 'protect jobs.'"

Why evolve or die when you can litigate!

The Slashdot Thread and Some Userfriendly mockery of the above

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

And this is why we dislike Mr. Specter here...

[silveradept]

Because widespread piracy and sharing is a disease that stops large corporations from forcing you to buy something to figure out if it's any good. I swear, they will find some way to sue libraries at some point for copyright infringement. Maybe then, people will actually notice what's been done to them.