Chris Riley on Orrin Hatch's Induce Act [ip]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Re: INDUCE Act
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:29:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Riley <chrisr () jhu edu>
To: <declan () well com>

Declan,

  The INDUCE Act (also the Inducing Infringements of Copyright Act, to
lessen the somewhat irrational connection to children) would ban far
more than just P2P networks.  While it's widely acknowledged that this
was the stated purpose, the text of the bill is far broader, and holds
liable any company which knowingly induces the infringement of
copyright.  This accusation could be made of an MP3 player or other
devices just as easily as a file-sharing software programmer; while I
have no statistics (and they might be hard to acquire), I expect DVD
burners are used as often for copying copyrighted movies as for RIAA
approved uses.  A few links worthy of note:

Ernest Miller's excellent markup of Senator Hatch's announcement:
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/004563.html

The EFF's first article on the announcement:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001631.php

A convincing (fake) complaint that Apple, Toshiba, and CNET Networks
can be held accountable under the act (remember Apple's 'Rip, Mix,
Burn' ad campaign?):
http://www.eff.org/IP/Apple_Complaint.php

 -- Chris
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