[LinuxUsers] Bush Signs Intellectual Property Enforcement Bill

Chris Penn cantormath at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 02:52:15 UTC 2008


http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/bush-signs-intellectual-property-enforcement-bill

Bush and the Entertainment industry is making it harder for people to
share information.

"On Monday, President Bushed signed a controversial intellectual
property enforcement bill into law. This set of proposals for
heightened intellectual property enforcement first appeared at the end
of 2007 in the House's original PRO IP Act. The winding history of the
bill not only sheds light on the agenda of the entertainment industry,
but leads to an instructive conclusion -- that the vigilance of public
interest groups and involved citizens is having a positive impact on
copyright policy.............."

-- 
"As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to
be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity."
 -Roger Penrose



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