Don't even TRY to copy - Feds want to give you 10 years in prison:

[cyberpj]

Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill

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The 24-page bill is a far-reaching medley of different proposals cobbled together. One would, for instance, create a new federal crime of just trying to commit copyright infringement. Such willful attempts at piracy, even if they fail, could be punished by up to 10 years in prison.

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A DMCA dispute
But one of the more controversial sections may be the changes to the DMCA. Under current law, Section 1201 of the law generally prohibits distributing or trafficking in any software or hardware that can be used to bypass copy-protection devices. (That section already has been used against a Princeton computer science professor, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov and a toner cartridge remanufacturer.)

Smith's measure would expand those civil and criminal restrictions. Instead of merely targeting distribution, the new language says nobody may "make, import, export, obtain control of, or possess" such anticircumvention tools if they may be redistributed to someone else.

"It's one degree more likely that mere communication about the means of accomplishing a hack would be subject to penalties," said Peter Jaszi, who teaches copyright law at American University and is critical of attempts to expand it.

much much more....
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6064016.html

[NVMojo]

1. don't think this doesn't have anything to do with bloggers and the power

to impact the people with information such as with the Dubai port deal.

[cyberpj]

5. Not for one split second. This is all about media control, esp. the net.

wish more people were aware of it tho.

[cyberpj]

6. AND Open Source as well. nt

[peacetalksforall]

2. We're going to surpass the USSR and People's Republic of China.

We're headed that way.

All with one intention - so that corporations and their political buddies can change laws to cover themselves and keep others out of their games.

[Mind_your_head]

3. Topsy-Turvy World - Where acts ('crimes'?) that may hurt corporations

(and their profits) are punished far, far more severely than crimes that hurt actual living, breathing people!

Whatta World :crazy:

[orleans]

4. how comforting it is to know someone will have to do ten years

in jail if they try stealing any of my wonderful poetry!




(blah! :puke: )