p2pnet.net News:- Big Music’s Recording Academy is pleased with itself.

It says it’s “demonstrated the powerful voice of the music community” by sending 3,300 emails supporting the Hollywood-inspired INDUCE Act to senators.

Written by “Academy members,” the emails were also hand delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Given that committee chairman senator Orrin Hatch has been spearheading INDUCE on behalf of the entertainment industry, there really wasn’t any need.

“For some time now, the only legal recourse to address illegal file sharing has been for the industry to sue individual computer users,” says RA president Neil Portnow.

“This bill provides an alternative; it puts responsibility in the hands of companies that profit by encouraging illegal use of your intellectual property.

Currently the bill is on hold, the RA points out, because Hatch, “one of the bill’s primary sponsors, opted not to introduce the act to the Senate Judiciary Committee in early October, but has stated he intends to pursue the legislation when Congress returns in November”.

Actually, INDUCE - which met with deep opposition from across the board, including the Business Software Alliance - has been all-but trashed by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) which wants the bill to stay hard-core anti-p2p in spite of attempts by other interested parties to modify it.

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See:-

all-but trashed - RIAA collapses INDUCE talks, p2pnet, October 8, 2004

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