Bush Pours Gas On The Fire, Triples Intellectual Property Damages

by Jason Wilk on October 14, 2008

  • The law triples damages in copyright infringement cases, which allows the government to seize property to make up for stolen digital property.
  • This  makes  each song and movie you download a separate criminal offense.
  • Copyright lobbyists have been on their road show to try and promote that copyright laws written in the pre-digital age needs to be protected and reinforced.
  • So the enforcement doesn’t kill innovation and creativity and things don’t get out of hand, there needs to be a set of guidelines of what is fair use.

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