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

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[annaonthemoon]

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.