Hollywood Writers Warn Against Uber-Harsh Anti-Piracy Measures

We never could have foreseen this. Never:

piracy-is-bad-posterby Ernesto

The Writers Guild of America is warning that current initiatives to protect copyright holders from online piracy go too far. The labor union, which represents many Hollywood writers, says that free speech and the open Internet should be balanced against copyright protection. Among other things they see high statutory damages, such as those the MPAA demanded against torrent site isoHunt, as unreasonable.

Last year the U.S. Government’s Internet Policy Task Force published a Green Paper signaling various copyright issues that need to be addressed. read article