{"id":20,"date":"2004-08-26T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T01:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2004-08-26T21:57:45","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T02:57:45","slug":"induce-act-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/induce-act-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"INDUCE Act &#8211; Bad News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a good article about a bad bill, the <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c108:S.2560:\">INDUCE Act,<\/a>  on Wired.com today.  I&#8217;m thinking it might be a good time to practice what can sometimes feel an exercise in futility and send a letter to my elected officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until recently, much of the discussion among tech enthusiasts about a controversial anti-piracy bill known as the Induce Act has focused on the proposed law&#8217;s improbability.<\/p>\n<p>Put forth by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), the bill has been ridiculed by techies as so poorly written that it could unintentionally ban anInduce Act Draws Support, Venom<br \/>\n infinite range of everyday tools &#8212; iPods, DVD burners, even paper and pencil.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,64723,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1\">Induce Act Draws Support, Venom<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\">Wired.com<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll see when\/if I get the same form letter back from some intern. Hopefully this bill doesn&#8217;t make it to the floor before the congressional session ends in Oct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a good article about a bad bill, the INDUCE Act, on Wired.com today. I&#8217;m thinking it might be a good time to practice what can sometimes feel an exercise in futility and send a letter to my elected officials. Until recently, much of the discussion among tech enthusiasts about a controversial anti-piracy bill&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/induce-act-bad-news\/\" title=\"Read INDUCE Act &#8211; Bad News!\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}