Francisco H Tapia
my.lists at verizon.net
Thu Jul 17 11:35:33 CDT 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,59654,00.html <snip> The bill, called the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act of 2003, or ACCOPS, would allocate more money to the justice department to investigate copyright crimes: up to $15 million a year, compared with the current budget of $10 million. The bill would also enable information sharing between countries to help in copyright enforcement abroad. ... ..."The content industry is asking the public to fund this kind of an effort against themselves." <snip> biggest problem I have with this proposal is that it's re-directing money or allocating more money to copyright infringement protection, while schools are suffering budget cuts. -Francisco http://rcm.netfirms.com