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Use iPod, go to jail? Keep your eyes on Congress
(This could apply for Pocket PC too)
Millions of people could soon be carrying illegal devices in their pockets.
That's the message from the ``Save the iPod'' campaign. Holmes Wilson, an organizer of the Web-based movement, warns that the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act now pending in Congress threatens to silence the popular music player. In other words, your right to bear beats is in danger.
Crazy?
The Induce Act would give the music industry and other copyright holders new legal grounds to sue any business that profits from encouraging people to illegally distribute songs, movies, software, games and other copyrighted works. The proposed law targets popular online file-swapping services such as Kazaa.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco digital liberties group, argues that music player makers like Apple Computer also could be held liable under the act. In an academic, pot-stirring exercise, EFF attorneys drew up a hypothetical lawsuit the record labels could bring against Apple.
``A substantial element of the iPod's commercial viability can be traced to its ability to play infringing music files, whether downloaded over the Internet from peer-to-peer (``P2P'') networks or the result of promiscuous hand-to-hand copying of sound recordings among friends and acquaintances,'' wrote EFF attorneys in the fake lawsuit.
Given that the iPod holds up to 10,000 songs -- more than most people's CD collections -- ``Apple knew and intended that iPod owners would be getting their music from elsewhere, including P2P networks.''

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