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Funkatron
09-27-2004, 10:20 PM
Before, I continue, I'd like to say that I've long since stopped my music downloading ways. I'm a happy customer of iTunes now. So I can see the whole music pirating thing from both sides.

But the potential of this new Induce Act in the works in Congress scares me.

Here is an article on Wired:http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65084,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

Basically, it goes like this: the act pretty much states that any company or technology that could be used to promote piracy(ie music and movie copying) could be considered illegal. What scares me is that this could apply to anything! Though no one may never use it that way, its seems like a bit too much power to me.

SilverKnight
09-27-2004, 10:54 PM
If that's the case, then the feds might as well just bust into every house, library, campus, and cafe in the US and confiscate all the computers, because that's going to be the only way to really stop internet piracy. The net doesn't deal with anything tangible, therefore trying to stop the problem in the same manner as tangibles is destined to fail.