Re: [DMCA-Activists] Biden: Ban Spoofing of Digital Restrictions Management

[Jonathan Watterson]

This is on the Senate floor (no longer in the Judiciary Committee) so
everyone contact both your senators.

J

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 10:29, Seth Johnson wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:07:06 -0400
> From: Declan McCullagh <address@hidden>
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> Pirate this, go to jail
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> By Declan McCullagh 
> July 29, 2002
> 
> WASHINGTON--Sen. Joseph Biden has become one of the newest
> field marshals in Congress' intellectual property wars.
> 
> After the 59-year old Delaware Democrat took over the
> Foreign Relations committee last year, the software and
> entertainment industries enlisted him in their anti-piracy
> struggles. That prompted Biden to convene a hearing where he
> denounced copyright thievery in stentorian tones. "Windows
> XP was available for illegal use on the streets of Moscow
> two months before it was released in the U.S. by Microsoft,"
> Biden said. "Every episode of "Seinfeld" is now available to
> download free to anyone with access to the Internet."
> 
> At the hearing in February, Biden released a 52-page report
> written by his aides and titled: "Theft of American
> Intellectual Property: Fighting Crime Abroad and At Home."
> One section devoted to counterfeit products expressed the
> worry that "counterfeiters flood markets with their
> underpriced products and steal a great deal of revenue."
> 
> A few weeks later, Biden introduced a bill titled the
> "Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002." It originally
> targeted the kind of large-scale pirates who manufacture
> fake Windows holograms, but in a little-noticed move this
> month before being sent to the Senate floor, the proposed
> legislation was rewritten to encompass technology used in
> digital rights management.
> 
> Biden's new bill would make it a federal felony to try and
> trick certain types of devices into playing your music or
> running your computer program. Breaking this law--even if
> it's to share music by your own garage band--could land you
> in prison for up to five years. And that's not counting the
> civil penalties of up to $25,000 per offense.
> 
> [...]
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