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'nuff said
Pretty stark evidence of who is running the show.
2005: Family Entertainment and Copyright Act: Criminalizes recording of movies in theaters and also lets theaters detain people merely suspected of recording in theaters. Criminalizes releasing a work online before it's been officially released (if it's "being prepared" for commercial distribution). Gotta love how the folks working at theaters can become a Copyright Enforcement Officers. I wonder if they can use force?
1997: No Electronic Theft (NET) Act: Decreased the threshold for what counts as criminal infringement (such as taking out the monetary profit requirement).
Wow, I never knew that it was ever not the case that monetary profit mattered. The first online music stores plus napster only came about years later, so I wonder what prompted it.