Last Monday, President Bush signed into law an anti-piracy law that simply stiffens the punishment for anyone with pirated media, as well as creates an intellectual property czar who's job will be to go to the president to discuss protecting copyrighted materials.
The penalties include increased fines for distributing content, easier maximum penalties for repeat offenders (no limit for how many they have to distribute before they get a nice 10-year prison term), and the ability for the justice department to seize any computers and devices used to distribute material and auction them off.
Though it seems that all of this just affects anyone who shares their stuff with others. So if you like to just take, you're likely fine. And as the general counsel for NBC Universal, Rick Cotton said, this "isn't for teenagers," but for counterfeiting and piracy by organized crime.
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1 comment:
I hope that comment at the end is true, cause if it is it's moronic. I personally feel guilty about taking pirated music; not from the artists but because i'm not sharing with the other people online.
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