jwz - why does congress hate america?.
Senate May Ram Copyright Bill: Several lobbying camps from different industries and ideologies are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law [...] which Congress might try to push through during a lame-duck session that begins this week.
The bill lumps together several pending copyright bills [...] which would criminally punish a person who "infringes a copyright by ... offering for distribution to the public by electronic means, with reckless disregard of the risk of further infringement."
The bill would also permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited.
Does that mean that I'd be in trouble because by posting the above I'm "offering for distribution to the public by electronic means, with reckless disregard of the risk of further infringement" jwz's words? And will it be illegal for me to use the adblocker in Firefox?
