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Sunday, June 27, 2004

US senator-

"P2P developers offering free lollipops to induce children to steal." WTF is this guy smoking because I think that I want some.

I am surprised I had not posted on this one.

Citing Oliver Twist and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Senator Orrin Hatch introduced the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act, late Tuesday. As I reported earlier, the act proposes fines and jail time for any company that produces technology that intentionally helps people violate copyrights. Hatch said that, like Fagin from Oliver Twist, companies like Kazaa were teaching children to steal. He does have a point there. Companies like Verizon and the Consumer Electronics Association are howling, though. CEA president Gary Shapiro said that if the law passes "the VCR would not be a legal product; TiVo would not be a legal product." He does have a point there. (this was take from leoville.com)

Let's hope that this one does not pass.

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