Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 30, 2004 03:56 AM
The article is really a parody of the bill introduced in the US Senate last week, "The Inducing Infrigement of Copyright Act." If it becomes law, this bill would make manufacturers of products capable of being used to infringe copyright liable for any infringement done by the purchasers of said product.
The infringement liability for producing a VCR would be HUGE! This bill, is NOT a joke. It is real. It must be fought. Read the links I gave. Decide for yourself if you want your next music player or camcorder squashed before it can be invented.
They wanted to get rid of fair use and freedom of content out right but everybody yelled. Now they are attacking it indirectly. They successfully outlawed reverse engineering of encryption (See DMCA). Now they want to make it too risky to develop content management and creation products. Fair use and content freedom are fine with them if you have no tools to exercise them!
The satire of this article is ridiculously funny but Senate Bill S.2560 is just ridiculous (worthy of ridicle), not funny!
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Joke? No, parody
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 30, 2004 03:56 AMThe infringement liability for producing a VCR would be HUGE! This bill, is NOT a joke. It is real. It must be fought. Read the links I gave. Decide for yourself if you want your next music player or camcorder squashed before it can be invented.
They wanted to get rid of fair use and freedom of content out right but everybody yelled. Now they are attacking it indirectly. They successfully outlawed reverse engineering of encryption (See DMCA). Now they want to make it too risky to develop content management and creation products. Fair use and content freedom are fine with them if you have no tools to exercise them!
The satire of this article is ridiculously funny but Senate Bill S.2560 is just ridiculous (worthy of ridicle), not funny!
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