The RIAA and MPAA are lobbying legislators in California for an exemption to a new bill. The new law aims to make pretexting - the use of deception to find out personal information - illegal. However, the music and movie bodies want to be given special permission to carry on misleading people and using false identities to gain private information. While they claim that it will only be used to “catch criminals”, the RIAA’s ridiculous lawsuits show that they have a pretty broad view of what it is to be a criminal

From the LA Times, here. Linked on Slashdot, here, via BOL, here.

Posted Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
Filed in business and productivity, copyright and drm, human rights, politics, science and tech

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