Four technology groups are fighting a U.S. Senate bill that would allow copyright holders to sue creators of products that "induce" copyright violations. The bill would discourage technology companies from offering new media players or other recording products, representatives of those four technology groups said this week.
The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 broadly allows lawsuits against anyone defined as inducing copyright violations and could be used by the music and movie industries to sue venture capitalists who invest in new technologies or journalists who review digital recording products, said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive officer of the Consumer Electronics Association.
The legislation, which doesn't exempt makers of technologies with substantial legitimate uses from lawsuits, would discourage the creation of new products like the IPod or TiVo, or home video and recording equipment, Shapiro said.
"I can't find any technology company that supports this legislation as written," Shapiro testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites). "This bill is, by far, the biggest threat to personal creativity, new technology, and innovation in 20 years. I urge you to consider the harm it will engender."
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News source: PCWorld
The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 broadly allows lawsuits against anyone defined as inducing copyright violations and could be used by the music and movie industries to sue venture capitalists who invest in new technologies or journalists who review digital recording products, said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive officer of the Consumer Electronics Association.
The legislation, which doesn't exempt makers of technologies with substantial legitimate uses from lawsuits, would discourage the creation of new products like the IPod or TiVo, or home video and recording equipment, Shapiro said.
"I can't find any technology company that supports this legislation as written," Shapiro testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites). "This bill is, by far, the biggest threat to personal creativity, new technology, and innovation in 20 years. I urge you to consider the harm it will engender."
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Argh!
In the words of the great Charlton Heston, "D@MN you! D@MN you all to H3LL!"
[that was a quote from the end of the original Planet of the Apes for you young whipper snappers out there]
For the record: I hope all the greedy self-centered cigar smoking golf playing egotistical know-it-all overpaid elitist pigs in the RIAA drive their pride convoy straight into the gates of hell where they can have a nice cup o' tea with their idol, the devil himself.
Yeah, that's it
Using their logic, then the internet will have to be shut down because poeple can and do use it for evil.
Its not just Republicans either, its both Republicans and Democrats. The same idiots who want to give illegal immigrants what few jobs we have left.
illegals only take jobs that you or i wouldn't take and those jobs are below minimum per hr.
instead of worrying about chit shoveling cow clumps jobs. worry about a carree.
/flame on
So true werejag. These people talking about illegals taking their jobs are of course talking about jobs that are low skilled (meaning the poster is in grade school or still in college). So of course to them it seems like this is the case. Once they get skilled enough to actually start a career lets see how many illegals they run in to.
And if you're not skilled in this day and age - well, it's probably your own fault.
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