7.26.2004  Marybeth Peters on S. 2560  The debate over the "Inducing Infringement of Copyrights" bill tends to be conducted in terms of abstractions and hypotheticals. But in her recent testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Register of Copyright Marybeth Peters summed up some of the specific concrete acts engaged in by P2P networks that are designed to encourage and facilitate copyright violations. See particularly pages 16-20. As she notes, a bill directed at these patterns of behavior that are obviously designed to foster copyright violations really does not present significant threat to honest developers of technology. I started to quote it, but there were too many good parts. So read the whole thing. posted by James DeLong : 7/26/2004 02:43:18 PM   IPcentral WebLog Blog Main Recent Posts   More Corporate Blogging - Schwartz on Software Corporate Blogging Emended " Czar" Quotation Material on S. 2560 Quote of the Day: Let's Not Have a Czar Witnesses for Hearing on S. 2560 P2P and Filtering Antitrust Retrospective Markets Affect Type of Files on P2P Networks The Free Market Garden Archives by Month   December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 Links   PFF Blog

	7.26.2004  Marybeth Peters on S. 2560  The debate over the "Inducing Infringement of Copyrights" bill tends to be conducted in terms of abstractions and hypotheticals. But in her recent testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Register of Copyright Marybeth Peters summed up some of the specific concrete acts engaged in by P2P networks that are designed to encourage and facilitate copyright violations. See particularly pages 16-20. As she notes, a bill directed at these patterns of behavior that are obviously designed to foster copyright violations really does not present significant threat to honest developers of technology. I started to quote it, but there were too many good parts. So read the whole thing. posted by James DeLong : 7/26/2004 02:43:18 PM   IPcentral WebLog Blog Main Recent Posts   More Corporate Blogging - Schwartz on Software Corporate Blogging Emended " Czar" Quotation Material on S. 2560 Quote of the Day: Let's Not Have a Czar Witnesses for Hearing on S. 2560 P2P and Filtering Antitrust Retrospective Markets Affect Type of Files on P2P Networks The Free Market Garden Archives by Month   December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 Links   PFF Blog