Exactly. A new law is coming, so get used to it. What you must decide now is what you want it to be. "Nothing" is not an option.


So tell them to alter that provision and there is a really good chance they will. Tell them to just drop the whole matter and there is NO chance they will.


The POINT is that rather than evil Big Media cruelly trying to imprison innocent decent people who have done nothing except violate multiple EXISTING laws hundreds of times a month and thumb their nose at resulting fines, the proposed law would send those people to prison, which would significantly curtail their piracy. It certainly sounds like the bill as written casts too wide a net, and criminalizes too much that it should not, so raise those objections and suggest alternative conditions for those criminal penalties. But do not pretend they are never warranted, or expect Congress to share that view, 'cos it ain't gonna happen.

As far as "we cannot allow evil Big Brother this kind of power to abuse!" once again, they already have it, so I suppose we are all doomed.