Ernest Miller: The Obsessively Annotated Introduction to the INDUCE Act
News roundup at FurdLog: IICA (née INDUCE) Act Coverage
Chirs Rush Cohen: INDUCE Act inducing me to do lots of research
EFF lawyers drafted a fake complaint which could be filed if the Induce Act passes: Prelude to a Fake Complaint
When the lawyers at EFF first sat down and asked “Whom could we sue under the Induce Act if we were an abusive copyright holder?” the answer was clear: pretty much everybody. Playing the devil’s advocates, we knew we could draft a legal complaint against any number of the major computer or electronics manufacturers for selling everyday devices we all know and love—CD burners, MP3 players, cell phones—and that with that complaint, we could file a lawsuit that would survive any attempt to dismiss it before trial, costing the targeted company up to $1,000,000 per month in legal fees alone. The Induce Act is a nasty, brutish stick in the hands of the wrong plaintiff.
