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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-25-04 09:03 PM
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Senate OKs Fines for Illegal Downloading
WASHINGTON - The Senate agreed to legislation Friday that would allow the Justice Department (news - web sites) to use civil penalties to go after people who illegally share and download computer files over the Internet (news - web sites).

Under the legislation — called the Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation or PIRATE Act — the Justice Department would be able to file civil copyright infringement cases against people who wrongfully download or share computer files.

Under current law, the attorney general can only file criminal copyright infringement cases, which are more difficult to prove because prosecutors must show the defendant knew the filesharing and downloading were illegal but did them anyway. Under the legislation, the Justice Department would be able to go after damages and restitution without bringing criminal charges.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=4&u=/ap/20040625/ap_on_go_co/senate_filesharing_2
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Massacure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-25-04 09:05 PM
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1. Most people who download won't give a rats ass.
It's too little too late.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-25-04 09:10 PM
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2. Is this aimed at Bev Harris?
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WildClarySage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 12:08 AM
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3. Who thinks up those anacronyms, anyway?
I'm a little disgusted that in the midst of war, high unemployment, torture and national security that Ashcroft and buddies have nothing better to do than worry over this.
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MetaTrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 12:11 AM
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4. Well, it's not only this that Ashcroft's worried about
There's also all that porn. And the bongs.
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 12:32 AM
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5. It might turn out to be a handy way to harass groups like this one, too
Depending on how the law is written and interpreted, a RW Justice Department might figure out a way to use it against DU - links, copywrite, that sort of thing.
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Dastard Stepchild Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 01:03 AM
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6. Clearly...
you fail to fully comprehend the threat of a 17-year-old girl from Muncie, Indiana illegally dowloading that that totally cool song from the Mean Girls soundtrack. I question your patriotism, my fellow citizen.

;)
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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 01:25 AM
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7. Look at the Executive stealing all kinds of money, Halliburton, Harken,
Enron, gas prices, schools closing all over the country, college tuitions so high you have to join the military to pay for it, terrible unemployment with a few low paying no health insurance jobs, manufacturing down and almost shut down in America... and they're doing nothing about it and chasing after file swappers!

I honestly say, 99% of someone who file swaps a program would never have bought it in the fisrt place but the introduction to it would eventually lead the person to a 50% chance of buying it in the future just because they want to own something they got familiar with.

I regard to music I'd say it's about the same. I think people do it just to do it. Personally I love iTunes system with tons of radio stations. I much prefer listening to a station than my own CD.
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