August 12, 2004

INDUCE running into problems

Posted at August 12, 2004 11:30 AM in Copyright-CopyLeft , Internet .

Senator Orrin Hatch's (R-UT) INDUCE looks like its running into a couple of problems, certainly if Rick Boucher(VA-9), guest posting on Lessig Blog, gets his way. He and John Doolittle have also introduced H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, which looks like it goes someway in redressing the imbalance created by DMCA.

As he says

copyright owners have asserted that the bill would essentially legalise all hacking and all hacking tools

which yes whilst possibly being true, still AFAIK make the issue of maliciously causing damage through hacking activities legal(i.e. wholesale ripping off of DVDs etc).

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