INDUCE Act Drops Link To Child Pornography

Senator Hatch and his compatriot Senator Leahy must have been inundated with criticism about trying to link their RIAA fight to child pornography. They dropped the acronym for INDUCE (Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act) and changed the name of the bill to simply IICA (Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act). Regardless of the bill's name the wording is still too broad and overreaching even if you agree with the intended goal of holding P2P networks liable for the illegal actions of their users.

Another side note is that this seems to be yet another area where there is already legislation on the books that makes the action of inducing copyright infringement illegal (Patent Law Statute 35 U.S.C. s. 271(b)), but whether to provide a more targeted tool for the RIAA and MPAA to use against P2P networks or simply to get their names on the front page and appear productive these distinguished gentleman have chosen to create a separate bill proposing a new law stating essentially the same thing. For more information see Senator Hatch Is At It Again.

"No Republican senator has sponsored more laws later held unconstitutional than Hatch." ~ quote from Let’s you and I debate this in public Sen. Hatch by Manuel A. Miranda in The Hill