Your iPod Illegal Under the INDUCE Act?
As was recently reported on Slashdot, Senator Orrin Hatch has introduced the INDUCE Act with this absurd floor speech which Ernest Miller has torn apart line-by-line. In response to Hatch, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has brilliantly illustrated how the INDUCE Act can and will be abused. They explain how under the INDUCE Act an agressive copyright holder could sue Apple for inducing iPod owners to infringe (merely by creating the innovative devices), as well as Toshiba for making the iPod’s hard drive, and CNET for showing people how to move the iPod’s music files. Time to visit the EFF Action Center to contact your Senators and tell them you want INDUCE squashed and innovation preserved. (This was a rejected Slashdot submission of mine.)
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