Whitehouse
The president has signed the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Act of 2008.
The White House successfully lobbied the Senate to remove language tasking the Department of Justice with suing copyright and trademark infringers on behalf of Hollywood (.pdf), the recording industry, manufacturers and software makers. But the Bush administration also said it didn’t want (.pdf) a copyright czar, a position on par with the nation’s drug czar Congress created in 1982 to wage the war on drugs. Lawmakers, however, sent him the package anyway and the president signed.
The czar is not likely to be appointed until after the elections.
What a great way to waste taxpayers money. Actually, I’m not that upset about all this. The more copyright law is enforced, the more people will realize how bad it is. I’m not as interested in getting by the law as changing it.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:21
Most people don’t think like you. They would rather break the law than change it because that is more convenient for them.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:58
Maybe, but I don’t think I’m expecting to change it as much as I expect them to abide by it. I believe you and I had this conversation before. I think it hurts the RIAA more when people *don’t* access their music regardless of the legality of the situation. I would prefer that people stopped listening to RIAA music.