{"id":529,"date":"2004-09-10T08:41:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T08:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2004-09-10T08:41:42","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T08:41:42","slug":"sensenbrenner_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Sensenbrenner Carries More Water for Hollywood; How does this benefit his Wisconsin Constituents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice to see Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/sensenbrenner\/contact.htm\">Jim Sensenbrenner<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interesting-people.org\/archives\/interesting-people\/200409\/msg00098.html\">working hard<\/a> to help our economic, education and health care concerns by carrying water for Hollywood&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Thwarted by the courts, copyright holders and their lobby groups, notably the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA), have been forced to file &#8220;John Doe&#8221; suits against infringers. But HR.4077 brings the full power of the state to their aid:<br \/>\nThe FBI will be required to serve as propaganda ministry, or in the words of the bill, &#8220;develop a program based on providing of information and notice to deter members of the public from committing acts of copyright infringement through the Internet,&#8221; and enforcer.<br \/>\nThe Feds must &#8220;facilitate the sharing among law enforcement agencies, Internet service providers, and copyright owners of information concerning acts of copyright infringement described in paragraph&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe chairman of the House Committee which nodded through the measure, Rep James Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis), was paid $18,000 by the Recording Industry Ass. of America to make a trip to Taiwan and Thailand in January 2003, a breach of the House ethics rules, say critics. [<a href=\"(http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A57306-2003Apr29)\">WaPo<\/a>  | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2003\/07\/17\/congressman_pocketed\/\">Reg<\/a>] Sensenbrenner said it was a &#8220;fact-finding mission&#8221;, even though his schedule was arranged by the State Department.<br \/>\nBut the distinction between State and corporate interests are now so close as to be indistinguishable.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is all about killing our fair use rights AND trying to make the internet a one way pipe (ala cable tv).   How this benefits Wisconsin residents is beyond me. Let Sensenbrenner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/sensenbrenner\/contact.htm\">know your thoughts<\/a> on how his time is spent working hard for Wisconsin.   More from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/news\/archives\/2004_09.php#001895\">EFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice to see Republican Jim Sensenbrenner working hard to help our economic, education and health care concerns by carrying water for Hollywood&#8230;. Thwarted by the courts, copyright holders and their lobby groups, notably the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA), have been forced to file &#8220;John Doe&#8221; suits against infringers. But HR.4077 brings the full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}