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Originally Posted by phoenixfire92983
It looks like they drastically changed the bill. HR2391 was revised to SB3021 and passed in the Senate. Now it needs to be passed in the House in December.
People who bring camcorders into movie theaters to leech will be punished and we will still be allowed to skip commercials and previews. The article also says that there's no new punishments for file sharers. Overall, not too bad compared to the original.
Here's the link to the article
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65796,00.html |
Looking at the bottom of the article, I can't see how they managed to come up with 50 pages in the bill related to standards in professional boxing. Sounds like someones pet legislation was slipped in and they hoped that the push to pass the bills other provisions might make some reluctant to attack and kill the legislation over one section which was unrelated to copyright law.