Senate Introduces IP Reform Bill Bolstering Enforcement

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/senate-introduc.html.

A couple of quotes: "Most important, the measure, like the House version, creates an executive-level Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, which would require Senate confirmation. The executive and its office would be charged with creating a nationwide plan to combat piracy and "report directly to the president and Congress regarding domestic international intellectual property enforcement programs."

"The bill also has a global reach. It charges the new Copyright Czar to "identify and give priority to those countries where programs of training and technical assistance can be carried out most effectively and with the greatest benefit to reducing counterfeit and pirated products in the United States market."

Here comes enforced ISP snooping.

 

Energy czar, Y2K czar, copyright czar... sheesh what will they think of next?

 

Time to acquire a taste for vodka and learn to play the balalaika. *ducks out of the way of the new iron curtain...those things are heavy!*