http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#47389 Severe actions by the public like jury nullification has to begin. Both Directv and the RIAA have sued those they knew were innocent. When you sue an innocent person you have had to lie in the court complaint. The act of lying in a court complaint to force settlement money is a crime. The victim of that crime then asks government to protect them against the fraudulent filing. The plea oif the crime victim falls on deaf ears. Justice does nothing to assist in arresting directv or RIAA for fraudulent court filing for gains. In order to put Justice on the right side of the law and protect innocent people, people need to do just what justice has done in these cases. Ignore Justice. The next time you are a Juror or a witness, ignore justice just like justice has done to those innocent people sued by directv and the RIAA. When enough jurors and witness ignore justice, then justice will have to get back to there job of protecting innocent people from such fraudulent lawsuits.... 47389@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:15:20 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#39598 I'm taking a list of everyone who supports this bill with me when I vote in November. I am voting AGAINST every person who supports it. I own 700+ CDs and 700+ DVDs and it sickens me that I ever gave those A-hole companies a penny of my money. I hate being treated like a criminal by an industry I supported financially. I'm going to do my small part to get their lackey puppets out of our government. It's time for a BIG change.... 39598@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:41:28 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18432 If this passes, they better start building prisons on every block, because they're going to need them. We're all going to be criminals. Seriously, why does content need absolute, total protection for 70 years after the author is dead? By the time it enters the public domain, if it ever does (every time the copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to expire the term gets extended another 20 years), the stuff is going to be so old it will be useless to anyone, if it survives at all. And to criminalize every possible use of copyrighted material is going to defeat the purpose of having or creating it in the first place.... 18432@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:07:43 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18195 When did we elect the RIAA and the MPAA to office? It is offensive that these (private) organizations are allowed to continue to exercise the control they have obtained over this government. They are not happy with controlling the direction of technology (Digital Rights Management - in all of its insidious forms), but now they want to control the judicial system as well. With their heavy handed approach to copyright enforcement, I am surprised that they didn't have their friends (Gonzales, Chabot, et. al) include a public flogging provision in the proposed legislation. Word to Washington - get busy with the critically important matters facing this country and let the lobbyists fight their own battles.... 18195@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:16:13 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18184 So if I attempt to tune into a cable channel I haven't subscribed to (like pushing the wrong numbers on the remote by accident), and my cable box is connected to a DVD or video recorder, did I "attempt to copy" something?... 18184@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:37:52 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18167 This is a bad piece of legislation, obviously pandering to the RIAA and MPAA. It is time to stop treating the average consumer like a criminal.... 18167@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:36:32 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18164 This bill is so far over the top it makes me want to cry. Not only does it propose to criminalize a routine civil infraction, but it proposes to criminalize even the ATTEMPT to make a civil infraction. Stop this bill now.... 18164@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:35:37 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18153 Looks like the RIAA has another corrupt politician in their pocket. Listen to the public, we DO NOT want file sharers treated as criminals.... 18153@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:18:51 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18139 What's the big surprise. It's just another way of filling prisons. We do it with drug laws and now with the kids who used to be the customers of the recording industry. Put em in jail and keep the unemployment rate low. Cynical, huh?... 18139@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:30:33 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18130 We would be one step closer to a real-life Minority Report scenario.... 18130@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:15:46 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18127 The pursuit of liberty, huh? I understand Montana more and more each and every day.... 18127@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:19:56 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18121 Stop worrying about RIA profits and do something about Darfur.... 18121@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:59:54 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18120 It's bad enough that Steven Chabot is seen by may Ohioans as the South end of a North bound horse, now he has to prove it once again.... 18120@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:53:47 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18103 Firstly an unbiparteason right is all of us to each other and next to have and any private, to unpublic way, first. I don't sell songs, but I could and that if I would is my justifyable only to that extent right to just have to claim copyright justification for monies as it is. The rest must as is public domain and, is our extened thought as to what is human kind futures. To say more if you share to someone else then that is a very cherishable society thought AND NOT a governmental instatment as it seem come be, right to judge you to the as, fact to be a criminal. If you care to submit financial support for medias to copyright then that is your monies in hand that moment only because recieved right to have, unless you'd rather have the monies in entirety taken away from you because everybody didn't have it like you? A law for that cooking too?... 18103@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:11:48 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18101 This is absolutely ridiculous, and clearly illustrates that the RIAA has far too much control and influence over our federal government. Chabot is obviously sucking up to corporate backers in a big way, and it shows. Hopefully his constituents will show their displeasure when election day rolls around again. He needs to be reminded that campaign contributors still don't count as much as voters, and this bill is really going to irritate a LOT of voters.... 18101@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:07:31 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18099 "Intellectual" definitely doesn't belong in this acts title. Peer-to-peer file sharing and the like that they're looking to fight here is unstoppable. They should've learned that when they tried to shut down Napster all to have several new peer-to-peer programs pop up in it's place. The only hope the RIAA and the like have is to find ways to profit from it, not keep trying to fight it. It's like a mouse trying to fight a rottweiler. It may get a couple bites in and really annoy the dog, but if that mouse doesn't stop attacking, the dog's eventually gonna bite it in half. If the RIAA and the like keep dropping money into politicians to get them to try to pass laws like this, eventually they're gonna find themselves not only out of business, but broke as well. Oh, and let's not forget the reason why the RIAA is so upset. God forbid they can't buy that 4th house they wanted in Europe! "Damn those kids, send them to jail!"... 18099@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:42:35 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18091 Nice to see all the difficult issue have been tackled. Now the rapists, murders and copyright infidgers can sit in a cell together. Mean while the corporate scumbags at companies like Enron get a slap on the wrist for stealing millions and bankrupting thousands.... 18091@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:32:55 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18089 This should be a joke if it's not !... 18089@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:30:13 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18088 The idea of making copyright infringement (assuming copying a song so I can use 10 seconds of it in a home video is copyright infringement and not simply fair use) a criminal offense is ridiculous. Proposing stupid laws that will have a host of unintended consequences (not the least of which will be further eroding of the CD industry) should be a criminal offense. Copyright laws were originally designed to enhance the odds of future creativity. This bill will have the opposite effect and provide a slippery slope to all copyrights (off to jail if you quote a book).... 18088@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:24:14 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18085 Hey, that was MY idea! But I suppose it'll go further if some other *sshat introduces it. I say go for it. :-)... 18085@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:32:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18082 This is the most horrible idea I've ever seen. I've recently discovered that even the most upscale families that do not believe in pirating software also do NOT see any wrong in downloading a few songs from time to time. These will be the people to drive their Congress critters to working at Mick D's. So good luck with that bill. We the People will be fighting it every step of the way.... 18082@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:47:57 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18079 This guy should be jailed for stealing Gonzales' idea.... 18079@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:55:08 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18078 Why don't you work on something that is a real problem to this country? Listed below are a few suggestions. 1. Ending the war in Iraq. 2. Ending illegal immigration. 3. Tax relief for the middle class. 4. Corruption in our political system. I am sorry, I forgot, you are not getting paid by some lobbiest to work on something important. Our government is a waste. "I love my country, but I had the government"... 18078@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:47:01 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18077 Next - even *thinking* about thinking about copyright violation will be punishable.... 18077@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:47:54 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_3155.html#18076 It just looks like we are attempting to choke technical and artistic innovation by increasing copyright law. As we increase the body of machine searchable Intellectual Property and with expanding bounds of what includes copyright infringement. We are creating a situation where only the rich can innovate and new innovators will be punished by the entrenched corporate interests. Check this for a academic paper on optimal copyright length. http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyright.pdf... 18076@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:46:47 EDT