02-21-2009
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Location: Southern Calif.
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Pending Legislation: DHCP Logs required
see the original articleTwo bills have been introduced so far--S.436 in the Senate and H.R.1076 in the House.
Each of the companion bills is titled "Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act," or Internet Safety Act.
{Truth is this is another attempt at DRM by Hollywood}
Each contains the same language: "A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user."
{this means all WiFi routers and/or Routers as well as ISPs}
"Everyone has to keep such information," says Albert Gidari, a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm in Seattle who specializes in this area of electronic privacy law. {Yet another example of legislation by your uninformed creatures in high places. Piracy is a real issue, but this will not deter anyone and is totally unmanageable.
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