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The NET Act revised Section 506 in order to close the "LaMacchia Loophole" which had emerged following the decision of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in the case of United States v. LaMacchia in 1994. Prior to the enactment of the NET Act, the law required that, in order to prosecute for criminal copyright ...
In 2004, the US Army paid the company a total of $4.5 million for a license of 500 users while allegedly installing the software for more than 9000 users; the case was settled for US$50 million. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Major anti-piracy organizations, like the BSA , conduct software licensing audits regularly to ensure full compliance.
When introducing an earlier version of the bill in the House of Representatives, Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) stated that widespread use of the Internet and the advent of high-capacity storage media like the DVD had the potential to worsen the problem of disregard for copyright, so increased penalties were needed to more strongly deter infringement.
Modern copyright provisions address both criminal and civil liability, as well as addressing the interests of both copyright holders and the public, though the reconceptualization of infringement as theft has led to a gradual worsening of criminal penalties. [10]
An Act to amend the provisions of titles 17 and 18, United States Code, to provide greater copyright protection by amending criminal copyright infringement provisions, and for other purposes. Acronyms (colloquial) NET Act: Enacted by: the 105th United States Congress: Effective: December 16, 1997: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 105-147 ...
In 2011, United States courts began determining the legality of suits brought against hundreds or thousands of BitTorrent users. Nearly simultaneously, a suit against 5,000 IP addresses was dismissed. [34] A smaller suit, Pacific Century International, Ltd. v. Does against 100 IPs, has also been dismissed. [citation needed]
The subscriber's name, address, phone number and physical or electronic signature. Identification of the material and its location before removal. A statement under penalty of perjury that the material was removed by mistake or misidentification. Subscriber consent to local federal court jurisdiction, or if overseas, to an appropriate judicial ...
[4]: 1030 Professor Peter Suber has argued that the US government should "make the penalties for copyfraud (false claim of copyright) at least as severe as the penalties for infringement; that is, take the wrongful decrease in the circulation of ideas at least as seriously as the wrongful increase in the circulation of ideas." [30]