congress considers SIRA Options

[Seeker]

Congress is about to debate a bill called SIRA which is a huge copyright reform act. Basically SIRA is a bill lobbied for by the RIAA that will allow them to take away your fair use rights and shaft you even more.

Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy. Even copies of songs that are cached in your computer's memory or buffered over a network would need yet another license. Once again, Big Copyright is looking for a way to double-dip into your wallet, extracting payment for the same content at multiple levels.

http://ipaction.org/blog/2006/06/worst-bil...r-heard-of.html