Re: [privacy] Think about breaking DMCA? Go Straight to jail!

[Patrick Jordan <patrickj () sunbelt-software com>]

"... Smith's measure would expand those civil and criminal restrictions.
Instead of merely targeting distribution, the new language says nobody
may "make, import, export, obtain control of, or possess" such
anticircumvention tools if they may be redistributed to someone else.
..."( http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6064016.html)

> From the quote above, a part of which would bother me a little where it
states "", or possess..".  What if, say someone wants to do harm to a
person or if the CWS type bad guys drop some of these tools during an
infestation or using a backdoor Trojan already installed.  If the FBI
looked at the computer they according to the part about possess, could
mean even a person never involved in IP could end up doing jail time. 

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:29 PM
To: mouse () Rodents Montreal QC CA
Cc: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [privacy] Think about breaking DMCA? Go Straight to jail!

Ref:

 'Congress Readies New Digital Copyright Bill'
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6064016.html

Horrifying, no?

- ferg



-- der Mouse <mouse () Rodents Montreal QC CA> wrote:
> [T]he "Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006" (IPPA) would
> double the authorized prison terms for existing copyright
> infringement, create a host of new offenses, and establish a division
> within the FBI to hunt down infringers.

Prison terms?  Copyright infringement is a criminal matter now there,
not a civil matter between the infringer and the copyright holder?

When did this happen?  I missed it.  DMCA?

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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