Thursday, June 24, 2010

DailyTech - Obama Administration Announces Massive Piracy Crackdown

DailyTech - Obama Administration Announces Massive Piracy Crackdown
It also implements an interesting provision called "imminent infringement", which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk"). This is among the first official "thought crime" provisions to be proposed by the U.S. government. The bill also makes it a criminal offense to bypass DRM.

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