more assHATCHery

[multi]

damn you orin,damn your eyes...

Even a moment's reflection should make the danger to innovators clear -- you now have to worry not just about contributory and vicarious liability, but an entirely new form of liability for building tools that might be misused. It will be interesting to see whether the bill expressly precludes any Betamax-type defense. This may also pose First Amendment problems, to the extent a journalist or website publisher might be liable for simply posting information about where infringement tools might be found or how to use them.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001631.php

Chapter 5 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding to the end of section 501 the following: (g) Intentional Inducement of Infringement.-Whoever intentionally induces any violation identified in subsection (a) of this section shall be liable as an infringer. (l) In subsection (g), "intentionally induces" means intentionally aids, abets, induces, counsels, 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) Nothing in this section shall enlarge or diminish the doctrines of vicarious or contributory liability for copyright infringement or require any court to unjustly withhold or impose any secondary liability for copyright infringement.

this one is directed at all of us that use any of the many p2p forums

[napho]

Those rat bastards don't scare me!!!!!
This seems like an appropriate time to introduce my new sig.

[multi]

i wonder if ZP will put this story in their news..
maybe they will have to edit my headline title...

[JackSpratts]

orrin hatch is a dangerous fool. he's been playing this game for some time. proposing draconian laws against the people he serves in order to prop up the industries who've bought him. that he himself violates copyrights with no apology is really all anyone need know of the man and his morals. he's the worst kind of hypocrite: a lawmaker. i wish i could vote against him but i don't want to move to his state.

- js.

[multi]

Originally Posted by multi

i wonder if ZP will put this story in their news..
maybe they will have to edit my headline title...

they posted it and used my headline..

LOL

we hate you orin !

whats the flap on the back of a pair of long johns called?

[Haole]

Originally Posted by multi

whats the flap on the back of a pair of long johns called?

A shortcut.

[walktalker]

Here's a good story about Hatch:
http://www.boston.com/business/techn...understanding/

I liked that bit:

Indeed, they predict that Hatch's bill would ban digital music players, outlaw home videotaping, and force cats and dogs to sleep together. Well, never mind that last bit. But you get the idea.

LOL

Curiously, the story ends like this:

Maybe it's because critics of the Hatch bill have gotten it wrong. After all, the bill would require a showing that the technology intentionally induces a copyright violation. [...] But what are the substantial legitimate uses for Grokster or Morpheus or Kazaa? Virtually none. The file-swapping programs are used almost exclusively by thieves, who rob recording artists of billions every year. Shed no tears for them. Weep instead for poor Orrin -- not a bad fellow, but misunderstood.

Is THAT a joke ?!?