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|  P2P News: Jail for US file sharers?
A bill that would give the entertainment industry cartels a powerful new weapon to use against p2p file sharers in the US looks likely to be approved.  | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | | | “File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a prerelease movie on the Internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, under a bill that's slated to become the most Draconian expansion of online piracy penalties in years,†says CNET News.
“The bill, approved by Congress on Tuesday, is written so broadly it could make a federal felon of anyone who has even one copy of a film, software program or music file in a shared folder and should have known the copyrighted work had not been commercially released. Stiff fines of up to $250,000 can also be levied. Penalties would apply regardless of whether any downloading took place.Ââ€
Senator Orrin Hatch was front and centre for the Hollywood inspired Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2004 and, "Invoking a procedure used for noncontroversial legislation, the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the measure, called the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act," says CNET. "Because the bill already has cleared the Senate, it now goes to President Bush for his signature."
Ex-RIAA man Mitch Glazier is now a record label cartel lobbyist. But he made his bones in 1999 when he greased the now infamous "sound recording" amendment into the completely unrelated Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act which made music recordings 'works for hire' which in turn meant artists weren't able to get possession of their own masters. | |  | |  | | |
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