{"id":34,"date":"2004-06-22T08:52:49","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=34"},"modified":"2004-06-22T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T12:58:23","slug":"new-antipiracy-bill-would-probably-ban-just-about-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"New Antipiracy bill would probably ban just about everything…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every once in a while, congress gives in to the RIAA\/MPAA lobby and someone dreams up a bill that is so ill-conceived it’s ridiculous. Yet another one of these bills is making its way through congress right now<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, the wording of the bill is so vague that it goes beyond peer-to-peer networks, and under the strictest letter of the law, would also make things like VCRs illegal. And you bet your computer would probably be on the banned list, too, since it could “aid and abet” copyright infringement.<\/p>\n

Typical luddite politics at work. If someone threatens a social norm, or at least an established way of gouging people out of their money, then let’s issue a blanket ban of products that threaten that overstayed existence.<\/p>\n

If passed, I think it would probably exceed the ludicrosity (if that’s a word) of the Ban on Electronic Games in Greece<\/a> that made headlines last year. Because, we all know how horribly dangerous having fun can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator Orrin Hatch has gone off the deep end and is endorsing a bill that’s making its way through Congress. If passed, it’ll ban quite a lot of devices we use today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}