p2pnet.net News:- The PPA (Professional Photographers of America) is all-out for Hollywood with strident calls to shaft Rick Boucher’s HR 107 Fair Rights bill, slated for a Congressional hearing on May 12 on the one hand, and support Orrin Hatch’s (PIRATE) Act on the other.

Claiming Boucher’s Digital Media Consumer Rights Act would, “make it impossible for photographers to protect their work in any digital format, “Act Now, says a PPA bulletin here.

HR 107 would, “give hackers explicit permission to distribute software and hardware devices designed to defeat copyright protection technology,” says the organization, which includes Adobe, Canon and Epson as $15,000 ‘platinum’ corporate members.

“Other provisions of the bill would set a dangerous precedent by making copyright owners who use anti-copying technology on music discs subject to regulation and fines from the Federal Trade Commission unless they meet extensive labeling and regulatory requirements.”

In another plea, “We urge you to contact your Senators in support of S. 2237, the Protectiting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation,” says the association.

Hollywood favourite, senator Orrin ‘Terminator’ Hatch, and another entertainment industry stalwart, senator Patrick Leahy, launched PIRATE to “provide the Department of Justice with tools to combat the rampant copyright piracy facilitated by peer-to-peer filesharing software”.

As p2pnet pointed out last June, Hollywood (music, tv and the movies) contributed $175,332 to Hatch in 2002, and so far in 2004, has pumped another $157,360 into his coffers for a total of $332,692.

At $160,250, Leahy’s top contributor in 2002 was, once again, Hollywood and for 2004, he’s so far chalked up $181,000, adding up to $341,250.

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