Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Apr 2006 15:06 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now US Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite. A proposed copyright law seen by CNET News.com would expand the DMCA's restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police more wiretapping and enforcement powers.
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RE[3]: The DRM issue is complicated...
by SpasmaticSeacow on Wed 26th Apr 2006 18:41
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Note that the proposed bill is the US *FIRST* intellectual property law. It is in the sense that the phrase "intellectual property" doesn't occur in existing federal law, nor is there a legal precedent for treating copyrights, patents and trademarks as property. This law is important in part because it is an important step in getting real property laws applied to non-property grants.
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That's a nice proposition, in theory. The reality is much more difficult. It isn't easy to find the pirates. They operate out of Third World countries, American suburbs, seedy industrial factories, college campuses, etc. In short, they're everywhere -- and nowhere at all.
You're right, of course. The situation won't improve until we have governments all over the world working together with common I.P. laws and coordination of detection, tracking, and enforcement agencies. But in the meantime we can strengthen our I.P. protection laws and go after the distribution methods such as warez sites, FTP servers, and P2P servers. There was a big piracy crackdown along these lines recently, wasn't there? Citizens need to support these efforts by looking at the good aspects of the bill before the US Congress and moving towards a workable DRM - not just decrying them with conspiracy theories and political insults.