California politicans do the bidding of the RIAA/MPAA again

DamnedIfIknow used our news submit to tell us "Man, we are going to have to set minimum I.Q. standards for people running for public office." 🙂 Here"s a link to the bill itself.

California Assembly Bill 2735 and Senate Bill 1506 would require anyone who knowingly disseminates commercial recorded or audiovisual material over the Internet to mark it with his or her name and address or face a possible one-year prison sentence. "These California anti-anonymity bills would force everyone - including children - to put their real names and addresses on all the files they trade, regardless of whether the files actually infringe copyrights," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "Because the bills require Internet users to post personally identifying information, they fly directly in the face of policy goals and laws that prevent identity theft and spam and protect children and domestic violence victims."

What's
also insulting is, not only are our privacy rights being eroded by special interest groups, we the 'common folk' are financing the madness with our tax dollars. The corporations fund the election for their candidate, then we pay his or her salary and benefits, so they can jerk the rug out from under us. It seems as though every government, except Canada, is creating a corporate goon force for the Internet. How far will this go before the public says enough is enough, I am not going to prison for my child that anonymously downloaded the latest bilge from American Idol.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundaton