Act Against INDUCE

The nice legal gnomes at EFF have setup an action alert to let your senators know that you think the INDUCE Act is a bad idea. Why do you think it's a bad idea? Because it would be easy to sue Apple for making the iPod.

Apple's iPod music player seemed particularly vulnerable to attack. Any major record label could bring a strong lawsuit against Apple for "intentionally inducing" infringement under this new law with the iPod, both because it's plausible to argue that having an iPod enhances the lure of using P2P to download music (gotta fill all that space!) and because all the major record labels still believe that private sharing of songs from your CDs with friends is copyright infringement. We still disagree with the labels on these points, but the reality is that no court has yet convinced them that their legal theories are flawed. We also threw in Toshiba for making the iPod's hard drive and CNET for showing people how to move the iPod's music files.

That's just one example though. Do they even understand the laws they write?