RTV71 used our news submit to tell us about an annoying new Bill that is about to be debated upon Capitol Hill. Once again, it is a way to get the government to become free security guards for the "entertainment industry". To me it seems a bit like a VAT for digital goods, only there is no value added. So, I guess it's more like "free money". When will this madness stop?
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Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer"s memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license. Once again, Big Copyright is looking for a way to double-dip into your wallet, extracting payment for the same content at multiple levels. |
For more information concerning this Bill, and also a way to fight back by alerting your (hopefully consumer sympathetic) Representative, please follow this link to IPac.
Source: IPac
