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Author Topic: Orrin Hatch and the IP Cartel (Strike again)  (Read 5013 times)
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« on: 2004-09-21, 13:52 »

There are two new and very serious threats to freedom in the US. The following are excerpted from the gnu.org Take Action page
http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html
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"Contact your senators to oppose a new law that would prohibit photocopiers, tape recorders, VCRs, CD writers, peer-to-peer software, etc." http://www.savethe.org
This new law is known as the INDUCE Act, and was introduced by the infamous Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. He is a big media and IP Cartel pet congressman who has been a major factor in the introduction and passing of all the most hated freedom-killing bills of the past decade. This bill has been rushed through to the Senate floor without any committee consideration because of extreme media group lobbying pressure.
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"Please join P2P United in the fight to defeat legislation to ban peer to peer software. Visit http://www.p2punited.org/involve.php to learn how you can help convince members of U.S. House of Representatives to oppose bill HR 4077. It could send you to jail for years just for having $1,000 worth of copyrighted material in the shared folder of your computer even if nobody ever accesses it!"
Yet another bill which specifically targets P2P, it is about to go to vote in the House Judiciary Committee.
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