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Joe Biden on Internet and Media

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We live in what has been termed the Information Age. Every day, most Americans interact with or absorb some form of mass communications media -- television, radio, print, or the internet. The owners of these outlets, and the digital pipes and airwaves through which they are delivered into our homes, have a significant impact on the values, lifestyles, and points of view the American people are exposed to. And because information is easily shared and accessed, issues of privacy and information ownership will continue to demand our attention. This topic includes information about candidate positions on: media consolidation, net neutrality, telecom immunity, intellectual property, rural broadband and the digital divide, censorship, internet taxes, and media literacy.

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  NewJoe Biden strongly supports current restrictions on the exchange of intellectual property and copyrighted material in the digital realm.

From a letter to U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft on July 25, 2002: “We are writing to urge that the U.S. Department of Justice vigilantly enforce intellectual property laws on the Internet to punish online theft of our copyrighted works and to deter such conduct. In order to stem this growing tide of massive piracy on the Internet, we urge the Department to utilize its powers to: Prosecute operators of peer-to-peer systems who intentionally facilitate mass piracy; Prosecute individuals who intentionally allow mass copying from their computer over peer-to-peer networks; and Create more Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIPs) units around the country with expanded authority to prosecute Internet piracy.”

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Primary sponsor of the Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002 (S. 2395), a bill "to prevent and punish counterfeiting and copyright piracy." The bill never became law.

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