As an honorable man I ask you, what are you going to do with patenet infringers? As a smart man you must know that most patent infringers do infringe to make money and profit off someonelse’s patents. This is cntrary to everyday sharing of music, that if done is not to make money or profit.

Sometimes the infringeent is because of ignorance but American lawyers and judges always (stupidly if you ask me) repeat “ignorance is no excuse” when referring to the infringement of kids,

But you do not care about patent infringement by large corporations. There are no jail terms for these. At least I have never heard of a patent holder feeling threatened with jail for infringing a patent. I have also never heard of a product with an FBI warnig for patent infringement like the ones on DVDs for copyright infringement. Have you?

I have also never hear of the Justice Department ceracking down on pateent infringement or setting up a unit to investigate corporate patent infringement. Have yoy?

Do you have an answer to this apparent disparity and discrimination against the people and legislative and judicial favoritsm to corporate (patent) infringers?

What do you have to say for yourself?. Are you not ashamed?

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

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Contact your representatives. Tell everyone to do the same. Hopefully, they will get the message from someone other than industry lobby groups.

Along with this is my idea for the audience to fall silent all summer long on the 3rd tune in a concert so these artists and their controlling companies get the message.

Stay free. Silent on three. Keep P2P.

Are they attacking on behalf of the artist or on behalf of their own profits. If they are all in the same then they will fail. Their fans will only be numb brains awaiting instruction to think.

So a kid download a song and he can get years in the slam?

This is a true story:

A music publisher from New York, acting as a typical American music publisher, fraudulently convinced the widow of my father that when a songwriter dies the music belongs to the widow (a legal lie), while propoposing that she, the “owner” assign the rights to my father’s song to them. Thi was 8 years ago. My father wrote over 700 songs and all were stolen through the scam I just described. The widow, when cought, sued my siblings and I, the real owners. She lost and the courts decided we are the rel owners.

In 1999 we went to the FBI to report the theft. They told me they were too busy with terrorism, as the Cole ship had been bombed in those days.

The we went to the loscal police who said that no theft took place.

Then in 2000 we weny to the local Justice Department. They also said no theft took place.

Then I went to the local Ombudsman. They also said no theft took place.

The we sued in the American court. The judge did not even mention the theft in his judgement and gaves us a damage award of just $16,000 even thought the music publisher had collected illegally about $1,000,000 in royalties (present worth). We spent over 70,000 in legal expenses and the publisher now claims they are broke and cannot pay even the absurd $16,000 sentence.

Then we went to the Boston Appeals court. They did not mention any theft in their decisions agains us.

Then we went again to our local Justice Department. After a year they have not completed their second investigation. The first one, 4 years earlier, took about 1/2 hour.

Now, can anyone figure this out? Real theft is tolerated by everyone reponsible for justice but some whacko legislator wants to send kid to jail for doing what has always been done by everyone, sharing and copying music.

Maybe the whacko legislator should study our case, the Venegas music case, to see what has gone wrong with copyright law, totally disregarded by music publishers and judges and law enforcement agencies while kids and their parents and everyone elses are threatenned with severe, maslaughter and property theft level jail sentences.

Rep. Lamar Smith is a sick person. Too bad for the people he will screw, the Americans.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com