The Consumer Electronics Association, the American Library Association, Public Knowledge and DigitalConsumer.org, along with other technology and consumer groups last week responded to a request from a Senate committee to submit changes to a copyright bill that would hold technology companies liable for encouraging people to infringe copyright.
The groups recommend amending the legislation so “only someone who distributes a commercial computer program that is specifically designed for wide-scale piracy on digital networks could be held liable for copyright violations.”
During a July Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the proposed bill, Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association, testified that the copyright bill would seriously hamper the development of new technologies.
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