[Noisebridge-discuss] Anti SOPA/PIPA Rally in SF during Internet Strike Day Tomorrow

[Tony Longshanks LeTigre]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Seth David Schoen

>
> Before 1997, you could be sued, but not criminally prosecuted, if your
> acts of copyright infringement did not have a commercial motive.
>
> In 1994, U.S. v. LaMacchia established that people found to be infringing
> copyrights for purely altruistic or otherwise noncommercial reasons were
> not criminally liable.  Congress took the judge's suggestion to change this
> by enacting the No Electronic Theft Act, which creates criminal liability
> for noncommercial infringements above a certain threshold.
>

Useful info, thanks!

Back on the SOPA topic: I see Google, Wikipedia and Craigslist are all
blacked out right now. Nice....
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