PIRATE Act Introduced in Congress
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/27/1927252
[0]certron writes "Xeni Jardin has written a story for Wired about
the
"Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act
of
2004" aka [1]the PIRATE Act. It and another related bill are
designed
to criminalize P2P filesharing by lowering the burden of proof for
law
enforcement and proposing jail terms of up to 10 years. The bill was
introduced by Sens. Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy, both of whom
received large contributions from the entertainment industries.
Under
the bill, even sharing a single file (if a judge decides the value
is
over $10,000) could land a user in jail. [2]Read the full text of
Orrin
Hatch's remarks."
Links
0. http://www.lemnisc8.com
1. http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,62830,00.html
2.
http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=1005
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