[free-sklyarov] Congress doubling number of DMCA, copyright federal police

[mw at themail.com]

that's quite interesting. 
looks like a flush.

and who is holding the cards?

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From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
Sent: Sat 07/28/2001 04:27 PM
To: free-sklyarov at zork.net
Subject: [free-sklyarov] Congress doubling number of DMCA, copyright federal police
Just think of it: $6 million more for investigations and prosecutions,
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>plus $4 million for better computers. The DMCA is a budget growth
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>opportunity for the FBI and DOJ, don't ya think?
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>-Declan
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><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45608,00.html"
>target="_new">http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45608,00.html</a>
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>   Congress Covets Copyright Cops
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>   By Declan McCullagh (declan at wired.com)
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>   2:00 a.m. July 28, 2001 PDT
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>   WASHINGTON -- If you've ever contemplated violating the Digital
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>   Millennium Copyright Act, be warned: Congress is set to more than
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>   double the number of federal copyright cops.
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>   A draft of next year's budget includes plans to hire far more Justice
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>   Department attorneys and FBI agents who are charged with placing more
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>   pirates in prison.
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>   This comes one week after Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke in
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>   Mountain View, California, about the threat of online piracy. In the
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>   same week, geek protesters demanded the release of Dmitry Sklyarov, a
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>   Russian programmer arrested on felony copyright charges.
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>   That's exactly what should be happening, according to a Senate
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>   committee report. In an apparent reference to the prosecution, it
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>   says: "The committee is aware that the FBI has launched an initiative
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>   to investigate violations of federal copyright laws protecting
>certain
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>   marketed software applications. The committee supports FBI
>efforts..."
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>   The Senate has earmarked $10 million for copyright prosecutions,
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>   enough money for 155 agents and attorneys in the fiscal year starting
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>   in October. That's up from a current $4 million allocated for 75
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>   positions.
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>   Copyright holders, who applauded the prosecution of Sklyarov on
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>   charges of violating the controversial DMCA, said they hoped the
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>   additional cash will put more DMCA pirates and copyright thieves
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>   behind bars.
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>   [...]
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