ministerofsickeningr - Slashdot User

New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame 895

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 24, 2006 @04:25AM from the things-that-make-you-go-hmmm dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Representative Lamar Smith is sponsoring the Intellectual Property Protection Act. The new bill is designed to give the Justice Department 'tools to combat IP crime' which which are used to 'quite frankly, fund terrorism activities,' according to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Among the provisions is lowering the standards for 'willful copyright violation' and increasing the corresponding prison term to 10 years." More information is also available at publicknowledge.org.

Comment Re:Perfectly legal social engineering (Score 1) 948

by ministerofsickeningr on Wednesday March 29, 2006 @05:27PM (#15020919) Attached to: Sandals and Ponytails Behind Slow Linux Adoption

spot on brilliant. i rad a post a long time ago here on slashdot, and it stated the experience of the educated engineer that was able to rise above the fear of perceptions of self image, and how much happier he was doing other work.. bad story, but in any case your anecdote is appreciated.

Getting on Top of Spam Down Under 128

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday March 28, 2006 @02:17PM from the sudden-increase-in-spam-drone-numbers dept.

The Register is reporting that Australia has implemented a new industry code for the regulation of email with respect to spam. From the article: "Under the new code, internet service providers (ISPs) will bear some of the responsibility for helping fight spam. Service providers must offer spam-filtering options to their subscribers and advise them on how to best deal with and report the nuisance mail. ISPs will also be compelled to impose 'reasonable' limits on subscribers' sending email."

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