RIAA, MPAA resume lobbying push to expand copyright law

[admin]

It only took a few days after politicians returned from their summer holidays for Hollywood and the major record labels to resume their legislative push to rewrite and expand digital copyright law.

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One of the more controversial sections of the latest version would permit the Justice Department to file a civil lawsuit against "any person" committing a copyright violation--which would include thousands, or perhaps millions, of piratical peer-to-peer users.

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The second RIAA- and MPAA-backed bill was introduced by senators Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, and Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, on Wednesday. It's called the International Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement Act, and it aims to ratchet up copyright pressure against countries that the U.S. Trade Representative deems to be taking too few steps against piracy.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10039238-38.html

[doctorhardware]

That bill is way over the top, the senator's will do anything to get the cash kickback from the RIAA and the MPAA. Then vote for a 35 to 45 percent raise. That is what is happening in Cook county, IL.