Group questions anti-piracy tactics

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A Washington-based policy group has cast doubt on the entertainment industry's aggressive action to combat copyright infringement

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YEAR
Tuesday, Mar 02, 2004,Page 12

The entertainment industry's pursuit of tough new laws to protect copyrighted materials from online piracy is bad for business and for the economy, according to a report that was to be released yesterday by the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a Washington policy group that has its roots in the business world.

Record companies and movie and television studios have fought copyright infringement on many fronts, hoping to find ways to prevent their products from being distributed free on the Internet. But critics warn that many of the new restrictions that the entertainment industry proposes -- like enforcing technological requirements for digital television programming that would prevent it from being transmitted online -- would upset the balance between the rights of the content creators and the rights of the public.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2004/03/02/2003100870

My news sources say Bush and the Repuke Lobbiests are building Guantanamo Bay II to house children downloading music. Bush figured the Muslim children in Guantanamo Bay I needed someone to play with.

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1. two democrats

one in the house ,one in the senate, have their names on bills that would restrict or outlaw most file sharing. so it`s not just the rethugs at work it`s are own two well known democrats.

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2. Arrr....

Anything that makes piracy harder is 'bad for business'...

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3. intellectual property law is bullshit

What if Newton had copyrighted calculus?

The RIAA is nothing but a bunch of leaches.

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4. I saw a documentary on how the Founding Fathers did NOT believe in

copyrights. And in fact they hurt capitalism. (I'm pretty sure that was who and what the show was about. It was a long time ago. Plus my memory is terrible.)