International Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement Act of 2008

[kenny]

Originally Posted by MadCat

The thing with that law is also that you're now paying tax dollars for IP enforcement cops. Not to mention the fact that seizing equipment is now fully legal, even if they end up going and grabbing some shared webserver because 1 guy on it has something copyrighted on there.

Let me know how you think that works out when they grab the server you happen to be hosted on.

Dedicated server. Besides they already have the power to take a server if someone else is doing something wrong with it. That is a risk already factored into virtual.

Originally Posted by MadCat

In essence IP enforcement is good, on the other hand, think a bit more paranoid and see how this law can set a rather dangerous precedent as to what the govt. is allowed to get away with (a lot, already). A few wordage tweaks and presto, it's now an anti pornography bill.

I'll bet you $10 that some representative has already thought of that one, and soon something will come up targeting porn on the internet with some draconian rules.

Something needs to be done to fix the internets rampant piracy problem and giving the nature of the offshore loophole there are limited ways to fix this.

You are right about the porn though. They can easily use this same platform to go after porn sites and internet porn has provided every reason to justify the cause.

There are alot of idiots doing some very stupid shit giving us all a bad name. A few will eventually wreck it for everybody.