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Copyright Crackdown, Part XXXVII

Jesse Walker | 7.22.2004 9:47 AM

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The INDUCE Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Sens. Leahy and Hatch, is a sweeping measure to punish people who "induce" copyright infringement as though they commited the infringement themselves. George Pieler explains just how bad an idea that is.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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