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

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 Child porn is the same way, possession is illegal (even if the naked person in the picture merely LOOKS underage and 
you can't prove otherwise).  I remember hearing of one sting operation that the FBI did way back when.  They sent this 
Child pornographer some childporn in the mail, when he opened up the package they stormed the house and arrested him.  
Of course he was a bad-guy to begin with, but it could happen all the same.

   All we'd need is for a 'bot to start spreading DECSS if this thing becomes law and that would make everyone a 
criminal.

  This Smith dude in Texas is just looking to be not re-elected.  Why in the world would he sponsor a bill that would 
put more severe punishments on downloading a song than other much more heinous crimes?   Sure sounds to me like his 
wallet is attached to the RIAA's/MPAA's, whatever's bank account.....
   Let's put drunk drivers that kill or mame people in jail, lets put murderers in jail for life, lets put honest to 
goodness real bad guys in jail....  Lets not put a 17year old in jail because he downloaded the latest Stones song......

   I wonder how this would affect the Russian sites that sell MP3's for pennies per megabyte?  Although I've always 
wondered if these sites are actually legal or not, even though they all say they are.


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Jordan [mailto:patrickj () sunbelt-software com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:27 AM
To: Fergie; mouse () Rodents Montreal QC CA
Cc: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [privacy] Think about breaking DMCA? Go Straight to jail!

"... 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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