quote: According to figures released by Nielsen SoundScan, Velvet Revolver's "Contraband" was the top-selling album in America last week, despite being prominently labeled on its cover as being "protected against unauthorized duplication."The success of the album is likely to prompt more experiments from BMG, the band's label, and other record companies, industry watchers said.
quote:The proposal, called the Induce Act, says "whoever intentionally induces any violation" of copyright law would be legally liable for those violations, a prohibition that would effectively ban file-swapping networks like Kazaa and Morpheus. In the draft bill seen by CNET News.com, inducement is defined as "aids, abets, induces, counsels, or procures" and can be punished with civil fines and, in some circumstances, lengthy prison terms.
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:Breaking news: Some guy in a country without copyright or extradition treaties with the United States busted the new copyright and posted source and instructions on a server located in his country.See, this is all it takes.
quote:Originally posted by WMD:[QB]1. Orrin Hatch is not a moron, he's a well-paid employee of the RIAA.
quote:Originally posted by -=Solaris.M.K.A=-:A well paid mentally impaired employee of the IRAA
even if you're renting you've got more rights than if you're using windows.
quote:Excerpt answer to questions put by IDM's Phil Leigh, Boucher made it clear that he would fight tooth and claw to prevent the new bill from making it into law in its current form. Boucher himself is supporting and presenting a bill that calls for changes to be made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which he feels is misguided in by making the bypassing of copy protection illegal in its own right.Some quotes here taken from the interview give some comfort. "I will work against this act. It is very poorly defined and it could target just about anyone. Even a university giving its students broadband access, could, under the current wording, be construed as inducing a copyright breach."Anyone making ANY kind of recording device, even an innocent recorder that has many other fair uses, could be in breach of this law just for making that technology available. Frankly there is no need for the statute at all.
quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:At least someone in Congress realizes how stupid Hatch's bill is.There is a a good article at the Register. Go Boucher!
