http://www.megagames.com/news/html/hardware/riaa-movieindustrycryillegalizeit.shtml

save our right to make our own media

congress is working its way to making cdr-w dvdr-w vhs casett mp3 players etc illegal... not ligit any more

we need to oppose this with all we can, sign up now and help the effort

have ? just ask

yes we do, but it's going to get worse before it gets better for people who only want the ability to use things they buy to their full potential, time to get as much DRM free stuff as you can, like HD-TV receivers/tuners, get one before july1st, 05 and it won't have any DRM, after that it will (this was on slashdot)

Wow. That's pretty dumb. Hopefully congress will realize they would be hurting the other industries much more than they're helping Hollywood, as well as doing something that's fucking retarded.

Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 (Introduced in Senate)

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

June 22, 2004
Mr. HATCH (for himself, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. FRIST, Mr. DASCHLE, Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina, and Mrs. BOXER) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary



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A BILL
To amend chapter 5 of title 17, United States Code, relating to inducement of copyright infringement, and for other purposes.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004'.

SEC. 2. INTENTIONAL INDUCEMENT OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.

Section 501 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(g)(1) In this subsection, the term `intentionally induces' means intentionally aids, abets, induces, or procures, and intent may be shown by acts from which a reasonable person would find intent to induce infringement based upon all relevant information about such acts then reasonably available to the actor, including whether the activity relies on infringement for its commercial viability.

`(2) Whoever intentionally induces any violation identified in subsection (a) shall be liable as an infringer.

`(3) Nothing in this subsection shall enlarge or diminish the doctrines of vicarious and contributory liability for copyright infringement or require any court to unjustly withhold or impose any secondary liability for copyright infringement.'.

This has been stated before, but it bears repeating.

Many of the movies I now own on DVD (I can list at least a half dozen titles) I had only seen as a rip before buying them. I won't buy something if I have no idea what I'm getting. Those rips was advertising, and in at least six cases the advertising worked.

How many films have I seen as rips only? Maybe a hundred. If I bought six of them, that's a 6% success for the film companies through advertising they didn't even create (similar to word-of-mouth advertising). The point is, 6% is vastly more effective than any billboard and practically every television advertisement. I don't buy on a tease. I buy on proven worth, and that's what rips provide.

Well there, that's the case.

If that happens i'm buying about 5 spare CD-R drives and several thousand blank CD-R's......