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| H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops                          |
|   from the lawn-forcement dept.                                    |
|   posted by kdawson on Wednesday June 11, @05:53 (Government)      |
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/11/0213244 |
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MrSnivvel writes “[0]H.R. 4279, Prioritizing Resources and Organization
for Intellectual Property Act of 2008, is gaining momentum in Congress.
It [1]passed the House a few days back. It would allow the Feds to seize
hardware that has even one file coming from ‘dubious origins,’ e.g.
downloaded from P2P. If passed into law, the bill would establish an
Intellectual Property Enforcement Division within the office of the
Deputy Attorney General. Rep. John Conyers says the goal is to
‘prioritize intellectual property protection to the highest level of our
government.’”

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Links:
0. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-4279
1. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i4552e786232dd91baa8a825cc2f79780