The Pirate Act is a bill before the United States Senate that would let federal prosecutors file civil lawsuits against suspected copyright infringers. The bill was introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in which the party commencing the action, the plaintiff, seeks a legal remedy. ... For copyright issues in relation to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Copyrights. ... Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934 in Pittsburgh) is a five-term Republican United States Senator, from Utah. ... Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Vermont. ...
The main backer of this legislation is the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade group representing the U.S. recording industry. ...
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The so-called PirateAct is raising alarms among copyright lawyers and lobbyists for peer-to-peer firms, who have been eyeing the recording industry's lawsuits against thousands of peer-to-peer users with trepidation.
One influential proponent of the PirateAct is urging precisely that.
The PirateAct represents the latest legislative priority for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and its allies, who collectively argue that dramatic action is necessary to prevent file-swapping networks from continuing to blossom in popularity.
The Inducing Infringement of CopyrightsAct, often abbreviated to just INDUCE Act, is a bill introduced in the United States Senate which targets "whoever intentionally induces any violation" of copyright.
The name came from an earlier version named the "Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act." On June 17, 2004, CNET's Declan McCullagh was the first major journalist to cover the controversial bill.
The Act would amend title 17 of the United States Code which is related to copyrights, by adding a subsection to the end of section 501.
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