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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:57:34 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: June 19, 2004 1:22:19 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: Re: [IP] Antipiracy bill targets technology
A bill called the Induce Act is scheduled to come before the Senate sometime next week. If passed, it would make whoever "aids, abets, induces (or) counsels" copyright violations liable for those violations.
Dave,The Act would seemingly clearly cover *all* e-mail systems as well, since *anything* that can be transmitted via a file-sharing network can be encoded
for e-mail transmission, including to very large numbers of recipients. The Induce Act appears to be the most wrong-headed, counter-productive,anti-technology, anti-innovation idea since bans on printing presses. In "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," the archdeacon says of the printing press vs.
the church, "This will kill that. The book will kill the edifice." Thethinking behind the Induce Act is of a similar philosophical bent, with the
added "bonus" of helping the entertainment behemoths fortify theirstranglehold on speech and communications, with the aid of their minions in
Congress.The Induce Act isn't about protecting children, since it won't accomplish that goal -- anti-children activities will simply move deeply underground
into highly masked and intractable communications channels. Rather, the Act is about money -- big money. The main reaction the Induce Act should induce in most thoughtful observers is the urge to vomit. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () pfir org or lauren () vortex com or lauren () privacyforum org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/laurenCo-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org Co-Founder, URIICA - Union for Representative International Internet Cooperation and Analysis - http://www.uriica.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://www.vortex.com/lauren-blog ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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