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Tech Laws Based On Suspicion?

By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate would, if passed, dramatically reshape copyright law by prohibiting file-trading networks and some consumer electronics devices on the grounds that they could be used for unlawful purposes.

The proposal, called the Induce Act, says "whoever intentionally induces any violation" of copyright law would be legally liable for those violations, a prohibition that would effectively ban file-swapping networks like Kazaa and Morpheus.

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These kinds of laws make me wonder about the true intention since if we are going to start making laws that presuppose that everyone is a criminal then we will end up in a police State.

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This quote, to me, suggests you need more than just that it could be used illegally. It seems, it must be proven that this was, in fact, your intention all along. Their is little doubt that the entire MP3 issue was in fact intentionally created as a way for people to download songs without paying for them. That is how the sites first came into being. It was only after the lawsuits, that places began to offer MP3s legally for a fee.