Anti-Piracy Efforts Rise with Controversial New Anti-Piracy Law

[PS3 News]

President Bush signed a new anti-piracy law heavily backed by the RIAA and MPAA today that establishes an IP Czar who will report directly to the president.

Primarily aimed at better protecting worldwide copyrights, the law boasts strengthening criminal laws against counterfeiting and piracy. The first IP Czar is expected to be named around the end of President Bush’s final term of office.

To quote: The law also toughens criminal laws against piracy and counterfeiting, although critics have argued that the measure goes too far and risks punishing people who have not infringed.

The Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America backed the bill, as did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

"By becoming law, the PRO-IP Act sends the message to IP criminals everywhere that the U.S. will go the extra mile to protect American innovation," said Tom Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. More PlayStation 3 News...

[Starlight]

That innovation that the usa is doing is not good for other countries as they are starting to stick their noses into other countries business, even here in canada, hollywood is trying to pay off one of our people in govt. to pass this C-61 bill and that person should resign as that is dishonest in my books as trying to get the same crappy law that the usa has or is trying to make a tougher one.