Comments on: D.C. showdown looms over file swapping

Will a vote in Washington undercut long-standing tolerance for casual copying of movies and TV shows?

[Steven N]

Induce is so wide...

How about guns? They can be used to kill people.
How about a crowbar? They can be used to break locks.
How about zerox machines? They can be used to make copies of anything
How about cars? Tend to kill people too

Record labels are using the wring tactics here. They should make sure a CD is worth buying for the whole CD, not just for a song or two. If it isn't then lower the price.

sounds good

Your answer sounds quite nice in theory. However what you are talking about is a matter of personal taste. You might think rap music sounds good and would pay 20$ for a cd, while I on the other hand would pay 20$ not to hear it. The real problem here and it is happening not only with the RIAA but with other big business players in the US. They use their enormous wealth and political influence to stifle the growth of technology. The people need to take back OUR government from the pockets of big business. The people stand idley by as law after law gets passed with nothing in it other than to make big business interests happy. Wake up America, this is our country, our laws, WE are the majority. Call your congressmen and tell them to wake up.

[Fray9]

November news

In an unusual turn of events today, the District Attourneys office has brought up the entire internet and every technology company in the United States up on charges claiming they violate the induce act which went into effect yesterday. In a completely unrelated story, the DA showed up for the hearing in a 2005 lamborgini. Congress was not available for comment because they are all vacationing in Fiji. No one is certain when or if they will return.

[sloflyer]

Why not outlaw radar detectors?

How can Congress, in good conscience, even consider a bill like this when they've done nothing at all to outlaw the manufacture and posession of portable radar detectors, whose sole purpose is to allow people to violate the speed limit laws? That would be more than a little hypocritical.

We need this to pass now!

What we need is for this law to pass and pass as quickly as possible. Then once it is in place we need to force the government to go after every company that makes a product that can "induce" people to steal. This would include ISP's, cable TV companies (I want to steal the shows I watch), sat. TV companies, sat. radio companies, MP3 player makers, PDA (I want to pirate the software for it), VCR makers, DVD video recorder makers, TV makers including HDTV makers (if I couldn't watch the programs I would want to steal them), car companies (if it wasn't for the cool stereos and such in them I wouldn't want to steal music to play in them), Radio stations, Stereo makers, record companies (they make the stuff I want to steal they are inducing me to steal from them), movie studios, the porn makers, Tivo like device makers, and so on.

Once Hollywood and Record companies start getting in trouble for inducing people to steal and once all of these other businesses are put out of business or it looks like they will be put out of business either the goverment will drop it or law suites will be filed and finally and the best part of all Mr. Hatch will loose his job for starting the whole mess with his half assed bill.

We need this law passed and passed now. Then as citizens of this country we need to force the goverment to use it. They will also be wasting time and money on this crap instead of going after real crooks. Once all of this happened I think you will find that people will be much more care about the laws they try to pass. At the very least they will keep them from being so open and loose and vague. This means when they tighten them up and make them specific there will be loop holes which will make them next to worthless.

Robert