| Anticircumvention Tools and Terrorism 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.
So basically, magic markers will now be illegal to possess because you might hand one to someone who uses it to bypass the copyright protection on a CD. Oops. Guess that link will be illegal also. And the computer you're reading this on? Illegal since you might possibly use it as an anticircumvention tool.
But my biggest laugh comes here:
During a speech in November, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endorsed the idea and said at the time that he would send Congress draft legislation. Such changes are necessary because new technology is "encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual-property theft," Gonzales said, adding that proceeds from the illicit businesses are used, "quite frankly, to fund terrorism activities." Yes. We all know that al Queda's next nefarious plan involves flooding the P2P networks with the latest Jessica Simpson song. The fiends! 
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Glendale, AZ | Don't forget sticky notes. They can also be used to circumvent certain cd copy protections so they are illegal as well. 
Don't deny it - if you are in posession of sticky notes or markers, you are a THIEF and should expect to be punished accordingly. After all, posession is 9/10s of the law!  |
