**RIAA and MPAA are enthusiastic of course **JESUS fu*king CHRIST...
The Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007, proposed to Congress on Monday by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,
would amend current U.S. copyright law to:
- give the government far more power to investigate and prosecute cases,
- would expand the scope of what constitutes a criminal act,
- would stiffen penalties
- including adding a life term for those whose activities cause death.
If the attorney general has his way, copyright law will work more like drug laws:
- The government could seize your personal property,
- wiretaps in counterfeit cases would become legit,
- violators could face lifetime prison sentences,
- and, in an ambiguous and far-reaching provision,
- the mere attempt to violate a copyright would become a crime.
The bill would:
- add stronger penalties for repeat offenders
- make it easier to charge someone as a repeat offender.
- Expand forfeiture provisions
- would allow the government to seize any property used in the commission of a crime -- like
- a PC,
- a home,
- cash on hand -- making copyright law similar to drug laws.
- make it a criminal act to export pirated materials
- as opposed to merely importing it.
- Allow the government wiretapping authority when investigating copyright and trademark cases, a power the government does not currently have.
- A new "attempt" provision:
- It wouldn't require the actual commission of a violation:
- , the bill could conceivably be expanded, in an extreme case,
- to interpret a computer full of music next to a spindle of blank CDs as an act of piracy.
** An RIAA representative said the organization had not had time to review the bill yet, and could not yet comment on the proposed legislation.
Gayle Osterberg, VP of communications for the MPAA, says that organization is also still going through the bill and hasn't had time to fully analyze it yet. However, she did offer boilerplate support for the process, if not the bill itself.
A 2003 article (in Business 2.0) likened backups to flossing - everyone knows it's important, but few devote enough thought or energy to it.
Last week, Business 2.0 got caught forgetting to floss.
On the night of Monday, April 23, the magazine's editorial system crashed, wiping out all the work that had been done for its June issue. The backup server failed to back up.
Good thing the magazine, based in San Francisco, is a monthly. "If it had happened a week later, we would have been in trouble," said Josh Quittner, the editor.
Until the night of the crash, the magazine had never had to rely on its backup server, Quittner said, so no one had noticed that its programming was either obsolete or dysfunctional, or both. Just last November, the magazine had listed off-site backup as being among "the usual precautions."
HE LOST the last election!
A defiant President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides testify about the firings of federal prosecutors only privately and not under oath or risk a constitutional showdown from which he would not back down.
This is the WORST idea I've seen in a while. Cities should not allow their airports to penalize business travelers by forcing them to pay for power. It's insane!
Over time, It will surely become more difficult to find open outlets in airports with Smarte Carte power outlets installed since that would cut into the vendor's profits. Contractually, the airport will probably have to waste money putting caps on non-Smarte Carte publicly accessible outlets. Ever seen a FREE luggage cart in an airport with Smart Cartes installed?
UPDATE: The ULTIMATE list of free/for pay AIRPORT WIRELESS.. HERE
Updated 4-1-09 about GM and the streetcars at end...Automakers are producing more than 100 fuel-efficient vehicles, but you can't buy them in the U.S.A study by the Civil Society Institute and 40MPG.org says there are now 113 vehicles rated at 40 mpg or higher available internationally, but just two (the Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrid) here.
In fact, the £170,000 price tag may make it one of the few affordable properties in what is London's and the UK's costliest borough.
The former janitor's storeroom measures 11ft by 7ft and has a cupboard place for a shower and kitchenette area.
that the size is roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for £170,000 in London's upmarket Chelsea.
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