{"id":5950,"date":"2004-06-24T12:11:29","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T19:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/24\/think-of-the-children.html"},"modified":"2004-06-24T12:11:29","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T19:11:29","slug":"think_of_the_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/think_of_the_ch.html","title":{"rendered":"Think of the children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orrin Hatch has introduced the “Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act,” which is meant to Protect the Children from Evil P2P Panderers Which Suck Them into a Life of Intellectual Property Infringement — but which instead, by this detailed analysis<\/a>, looks more like it’s design to let media conglomerates sue anyone who might provide anything that could be used by anyone to steal something they claim is theirs. Swell.<\/p>\n

The commentary would be hilarious if the law in question weren’t so bloody awful.<\/p>\n

Mr. President, it is illegal [If it is already illegal, why do we need a statute?<\/i><\/b>] and immoral to induce or encourage children [Will someone please think of the children?<\/a><\/i><\/b>] to commit crimes. Artists realize that adults who corrupt or exploit the innocence of children are the worst type of villains. [Well, call me morally challenged, but I consider murderers worse. And I take it these are different artists than the ones that corrupt children through that “rock and roll” or “rap” noise?<\/b><\/i>] In Oliver Twist<\/a><\/i>, Fagin<\/a> and Bill Sikes profited by inducing children to steal. [Hatch fails to note that Oliver was forced into the streets when the moralistic parish authorities sent him to a workhouse that nearly starved him to death and then sold him to an abusive undertaker as a slave\/apprentice when he asked “for more.” I think one of the points Dickens was making was that if you treat people better, there will be less cause for them to turn to crime. Sort of like if the RIAA<\/a> treated people better they might not engage in infringement.<\/i><\/b>] In the film Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang<\/a><\/i>, the leering \u201cChild-Catcher\u201d lured children into danger with false promises of \u201cfree lollipops.\u201d [Actually, the Child-Catcher was acting as an agent of the government because a nonsensical law banning children had been passed by a ruler who feared kids, sort of like other nonsensical laws banning things those in power fear.<\/i><\/b>] Tragically, some corporations now seem to think that they can legally profit by inducing children to steal \u2013 that they can legally lure children [Will someone please think of the children?<\/a><\/i><\/b>] and [millions of<\/i><\/b>] others with false promises [If the promises are false, then no infringement takes place, right?<\/b><\/i>] of \u201cfree music.\u201d [Tragically, some major corporate copyright holders now seem to think that they can legally profit by getting laws passed that inhibit innovation and free speech.<\/i><\/b>]<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a> some more)<\/small><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Les has more <\/a>(heh). My favorite bit is this sound by from Leahy:<\/p>\n

“The makers of electronic equipment, the software vendors who sell e-mail and other programs, the Internet service providers who facilitate access to the Web–all of these entities have nothing to fear from this bill. So long as they do not conduct their businesses with the intention of inducing others to break the law–and I certainly have not heard from anyone who makes that claim–they should rest easy.”<\/p>\n

Right. And people who act in good faith and conscience and are innocent of crimes should never worry about police abuse (who needs all that Bill of Rights jazz) or frivolous law suits. Because the world is full of all-wise and all-compassionate powers that would never, ever mistreat anyone, even if given the legal ability to do so (cough<\/i>DMCAcough<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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