It all seems a little anti-climactic to me. See: Congressional caucus targets piracy May 19, 2003, 3:51 PM PDT http://news.com.com/2100-1028-1007908.html and Congressional caucus fights piracy May 28, 2003, 4:31 PM PDT http://news.com.com/2110-1028-1010925.html How many "anti-piracy" caucuses do we need? -Declan --- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:11:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@private> Reply-To: joehall@private To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>, Dave Farber <dave@private> Subject: Congressional "piracy" caucus formed... In an interesting side note to this, I've started to see some bay area residents wearing pirate hats of various sorts (all with skull and cross-bones on them)... I can only hope that this is some sort of protest against moves like the one described below. I may have to start wearing one as well! Joe --- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60054-2003Oct21.html Congressional Caucus to Examine Entertainment Piracy By David McGuire Tuesday, October 21, 2003; 5:05 PM The aggressive crackdown on movie, music and software piracy on the Internet has been a headline grabber during the past six months, but a new group of congressional lawmakers is focusing instead on trampling the rampant copyright infringement taking place in broad daylight overseas. "Brazil, China, Pakistan, Russia and Taiwan have willfully ignored the need to crack down on the sale of pirated goods, a practice that costs the world economy billions of dollars each year", said Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-Va.) at a press conference today on Capitol Hill. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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