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A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill backed by the recording industry that would give federal prosecutors the power to file civil lawsuits against peer-to-peer users who violate copyright laws.
By a 14-4 margin, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act, which would create stricter IP laws, as well as increase the ability of the White House and Justice Department to enforce those laws. All four dissenters were Republicans: John Kyl of Arizona, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America have supported the bill. On Thursday, the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce also expressed their approval of the vote.
In general, the bill toughens civil and criminal laws against counterfeiting and piracy. For instance, it amends current trademark law to double the statutory damages in counterfeiting cases.
The act also expands the power of the White House by creating an IP Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) position within the executive branch. The IPEC would direct other agencies in a coordinated strategy to fight counterfeiting and piracy.
The bill also adds five new International IP Enforcement Coordinators to act as liaisons to foreign countries with respect to U.S. IP law enforcement.
The House of Representatives passed a similar bill earlier in the year called the "Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act." Here is a link to the proposed law:
»thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.3325:
Here is the link to the House version that has already passed:
»thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z···#summary
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The act also expands the power of the White House by creating an IP Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) position within the executive branch. The IPEC would direct other agencies in a coordinated strategy to fight counterfeiting and piracy.
Can you say War On Copyright Infringers? Soon they'll be raiding your house, taking your stuff and shooting your pets.
Contact your senators and reps NOW and let them know that government doesn't exist solely to protect corporate profits, and even if it did, we don't need another War On Anything taking away our individual rights and wasting time and effort.
This may sound odd, but the Republican dissenters reinforce my belief that Republicans are less universally evil than Democrats.
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| said by MrMoody:... This may sound odd, but the Republican dissenters reinforce my belief that Republicans are less universally evil than Democrats. you might want to find out why they dissented before you attribute to them "non-evil" actions; those four are some of the most extreme right wing senators in office. It could be they dissented because the bill wasn't draconian enough. on the other hand, their extremism is mostly on "values", so maybe they do object to the Justice Department becoming the RIAA/MPAA Enforcement Department. |
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Smithfield, NC | said by nasadude:you might want to find out why they dissented before you attribute to them "non-evil" actions; those four are some of the most extreme right wing senators in office. It could be they dissented because the bill wasn't draconian enough. on the other hand, their extremism is mostly on "values", so maybe they do object to the Justice Department becoming the RIAA/MPAA Enforcement Department. Bah, everyone's an extremist. What we have now is a bunch of capitalist extremists. Capitalism works, but like everything else it needs to be moderated and balanced to prevent a few from taking unfair advantage and ending up with everything.
As far as values, on the one hand, I don't want the government forcing idiotic 18th century Puritan "church morals" on me.
But on the other hand, I think so-called "values" are a relatively unimportant issue on the list of this country's problems, and maybe a person who supports them has a little more integrity and a little less chance of being corruptible. Assuming he's not one of the many hypocrites ...
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Only a partisan hack would imply that party association has anything at all to do with voting for or against bills like this.
IP enforcement is something that has broad support throughout congress regardless of party. Democrats are beholden to the strong democrats from California that represent the movie industry. The Republicans are beholden to the record labels who are owned by major "republican" oriented corporations like Sony, Disney and GE and most important of all the stock market that views IP as a critical asset of the US economy. In fact without IP exports the US would face a trade deficit that was double it's current value.
There is no room for partisan behavior on this. I know you think there is us and them and that "them" aren't with you so they are against you so you feel the need to make everything a Partisan issue but you are WRONG. And your behavior is not only disgusting it's detrimental to the political system in this country. |
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