The White House will be revised Copyright Law

The White House worried about copyright law in the U.S., so that today the White House proposes to revise and make sweeping against copyright law in the U.S. Including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers .

In a 20-page white paper (PDF), the Obama Called on the U.S. administration Congress to fix "deficiencies That Could Hinder enforcement" of intellectual property laws. Victoria Espinel, the first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, with Vice President Joe Biden During an event last year

The report was Prepared by Victoria Espinel, the first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, WHO received Senate confirmation in December 2009, and represents a broad tightening of many forms of intellectual property law, Including That ones deal with Counterfeit pharmaceuticals and overseas royalties for copyright holders.

Some of the highlights:

• The White House is Concerned That "illegal streaming of content" May not be Covered by criminal law, saying "questions have arisen about whether streaming constitutes the distribution of copyrighted works." To resolve That ambiguity, it wants a new law to "clarify That infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in Appropriate circumstances."

• Under federal law, wiretaps May only be conducted in Investigations of serious crimes, a That list was expanded by the 2001 Patriot Act to include offenses Such as the material support of terrorism and use of weapons of mass destruction. The administration is proposing to add copyright and trademark infringement, arguing That move "Would assists U.S. law enforcement agencies to effectively investigate those offenses."

• Under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Generally it's illegal to distribute hardware or software - Such as the DVD-decoding Handbrake software available from a server in France - that can "circumvent" copy protection technology. The administration is proposing That if Homeland Security seizes circumvention devices, it be Permitted to "inform rightholders," "Provide samples of Such devices," and assists "Bringing Them in civil actions."

The term "fair use" does not Appear anywhere in the report. But it does mention Web sites like The Pirate Bay, the which is hosted in Sweden, Pls warning That "foreign-based and foreign-controlled Web sites and Web services raise particular concerns for U.S. enforcement Efforts." (See previous coverage of a Congressional hearing on overseas sites.)

The usual copyright hawks, Including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, applauded the paper, the which grew out of a so-called joint strategic plan That Vice President Biden and Espinel Announced in June 2010.

Rob Calia, a senior director at the Chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center, said we "strongly support the white paper's call for Congress to clarify That criminal copyright infringement through unauthorized streaming, is a felony. We know both the House and Senate are looking at this issue and encourage Them to work closely with the administration and other stakeholders to combat this growing threat. "

In October 2008, President Bush signed into law the so-called Pro IP ACT, the which created Espinel's position and Increased penalties for infringement, after expressing its Opposition to an Earlier Version.

Unless legislative proposals - like one Nearly a decade ago implanting strict copy controls in digital devices - go too far, digital copyright tends not to be a particularly partisan topic. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, near-universally disliked by programmers and engineers for its anti-circumvention section, was approved unanimously in the U.S. Senate.

At the Same time, Democratic politicians tend to be a bit more enthusiastic about the topic. Biden was a close Senate ally of copyright holders, and President Obama picked the copyright industry's top lawyers for Justice Department posts. Last year, Biden warned That "piracy is theft."

No Less than 78 percent of political contributions from Hollywood Went to Democrats in 2008, the which is broadly consistent with the trend for the last two decades, According to OpenSecrets.org.

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Internet Explorer 9 for windows 7

For those of you who use Windows XP, you will not be able to use Internet Explorer 9 because Internet Explorer will not support on Windows XP and the only support in Windows 7.

Microsoft's official explanation for why Internet Explorer 9 does not support Windows XP, the operating system runs on an Estimated That 40 percent to 50 percent of the world's computers, Is That the graphics card-powered hardware acceleration that helps the browser loads pages faster doesn 't work properly with the device drivers on Windows XP. However, at least one other browsers, Firefox 4 release candidate 1, offers full hardware acceleration across multiple operating systems, Including Windows XP.

The lack of support for Windows XP aside, Internet Explorer 9 is a fantastic browser Pls compared with its predecessors, and competitive against its toughening Rivals. The browser offers Some great new features, Such as pinned sites, a revamped search box, and add-on performance impact notifications.

Pinned sites create a tighter integration Between the browser and desktop by creating site-specific browsers. Drag a tab onto the desktop Windows 7 taskbar, and depending on the site developer's coding cans you get the jump site-specific lists, unread e-mail notifications, or streaming media player controls. Other major sites have pinned That integration include Groupon, CNN, Pandora, Hulu, Slacker, Facebook, Twitter, and eBay.
Meanwhile, the new unified search box manages to include all the functionality of the old search box, such as changing search providers on the fly, while introducing on-the-fly searching so that as you type you see a relevant list of Web results, bookmarks, and browsing history.

The add-on performance notification is a small but useful feature that warns you when an add-on is slowing down the browser. You can customize what level of impact is warned for, too.

The performance of the browser itself has been lauded since last year when Microsoft rolled out developer's previews. Over the course of the following year, the developer's previews, betas, and release candidate version of IE 9 were downloaded more than 25 million times, and amounted to around 2 percent of all installed versions of Internet Explorer on Windows 7 by the time the release candidate was published.

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