MPAA, RIAA seek permanent antitrust exemption

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34191.html

Just weeks after an antitrust suit was filed against the RIAA by webcasters, the music labels' lobby group, is, along with Hollywood, seeking a permanent exemption from similar litigation. The proposal seeks to extend the exemption to anything covering mechanical copyright: a sweeping extension of the copyright cartel's immunity.

It's buried away in a piece of legislation co-sponsored by Senator Orrin Hatch called the EnFORCE Act, or the Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement Act of 2003. With 12-year old girls being threatened with $150,000 fines, and the computer industry embracing social engineering technologies such as locked music, you would think the last thing that the nation's cultural heritage needs is stricter enforcement by the copyright cartel.

Hatch said the big studios and major record labels need the exemption because of "market realities...The bill authorizes appropriations to ensure that all Department of Justice units that investigate intellectual property crimes have the support of at least one agent specifically trained in the investigation of such crimes," he said last week.


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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Thanks for posting. Great indictment of Hatch,

:kick:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Orrin Hatch is EVIL EVIL EVIL. The *AA Copyright Nazis are EVIL EVIL EVIL.

Repeat with me. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: