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ART Act, not Pirate Act[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jul 13, 2004 at 01:54:28 PM PDT

the senate passed the Pirate Act, a bill that would make videotaping a film in a movie theater punishable by three years in prison

According to the Wired article, the ART act is the one that covers videotaping in a movie theater. The Pirate act lets the government file civil suits against aledged illegal file traders.

This is one of the most egregious attacks on fair use since the DMCA..."

Fair use? Give me a break. There are enough real attacks on fair use to worry about. You and I both know that when someone takes a videocam into a theater to tape a movie, fair use (such as excerpting for a review/lecture/other) is not what they have in mind.

Keep up the good work, but please no more crying wolf.

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Woops[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#2)
by Jeff Foster on Wed Jul 14, 2004 at 01:04:21 PM PDT

You are correct, I totally scooched the pooch on that one. It is the Art Act, not the Pirate act. I'm not sure how I got confused, but clearly I did. I also probably shouldn't of used the term fair, use, as it isn't the proper term for what the Art act does. I think crying wolf is a bit unfair though. This Act will throw people in jail for up to 10 years for VIDEOTAPING a movie. I find it abhorrent that congress would we willing to pass a law that would toss human beings in jail in the name of protecting a $40 Billion industry that hasn't proven(or even attempted to prove) that they need such protections. I think it's important that people know about it(even though I couldn't get the name right....)

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Crying What?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by Anonymous User on Sat Aug 21, 2004 at 10:14:14 PM PDT

Wolf. WOLF! And there is a wolf, an ugly, aged, but still mean-as-ever one in the form of Jack Valenti. Sure, he's retiring, but he manages to keep hogging the spotlight and buys senator after senator - something that needs to be dealt with. Ten years in prison for filming a crappy copy of a movie? And who's going to be paying for this incarceration? Meanwhile, terrorists roam free, rapists and gang members see less jail time, yet some seem to think think it's a good idea to toss some idiot who uploads a crappy CAM copy of Van Helsing on P2P in the clink.

It's called priorities, and America needs to set hers straght.

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