From: "Robert G Lewis" 

No its not. I wonder of Congress has thought that if we start sending Feds
into the Mom and Pop stores ( or the homes of downloaders) that people will
consider it to be a violation of their rights and even more government
intrusion into their lives.


Bob Lewis

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:41824bfc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >I don't know that this was a violation of the Patriot Act. Congress did
> >change the laws so the government gets to enforce IP law now instead of
> >the owner of the IP. Not a good thing in my opinion. Waste of resources.
>
> It's a violation of the spirit of the original patriot act at the very
> least, this is *not* a homeland security issue.
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
> news:418246d2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>I don't know that this was a violation of the Patriot Act. Congress did
>>change the laws so the government gets to enforce IP law now instead of
>>the owner of the IP. Not a good thing in my opinion. Waste of resources.
>>
>> Bob Lewis
>>
>> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>> news:4182435a{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> But, but, there have never been any abuses of the Patriot act, and that
>>> would NEVER happen...
>>>
>>> - Bob Comer 
>>>
>>>
>>> "Adam Flinton" 
wrote in message
>>> news:41823e56$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> from.....
>>>>
>>>>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&e=1&u=/ap/20041028/ap_
on_fe_st/toy_store_homeland_security
>>>>
>>>> "ST. HELENS, Ore. - So far as she knows, Pufferbelly Toys owner
>>>> Stephanie Cox hasn't been passing any state secrets to
sinister foreign
>>>> governments, or violating obscure clauses in the Patriot Act.
>>>>
>>>> So she was taken aback by a mysterious phone call from the U.S.
>>>> Department of Homeland Security to her small store in this quiet
>>>> Columbia River town just north of Portland.
>>>>
>>>> "I was shaking in my shoes," Cox said of the
September phone call. "My
>>>> first thought was the government can shut your business
down on a whim,
>>>> in my opinion. If I'm closed even for a day that would cause undue
>>>> stress."
>>>>
>>>> When the two agents arrived at the store, the lead agent asked Cox
>>>> whether she carried a toy called the Magic Cube, which he
said was an
>>>> illegal copy of the Rubik's Cube, one of the most popular
toys of all
>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>> He told her to remove the Magic Cube from her shelves, and
he watched
>>>> to make sure she complied.
>>>>
>>>> After the agents left, Cox called the manufacturer of the
Magic Cube,
>>>> the Toysmith Group, which is based in Auburn, Wash. A representative
>>>> told her that Rubik's Cube patent had expired, and the
Magic Cube did
>>>> not infringe on the rival toy's trademark.
>>>>
>>>> Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs
Enforcement,
>>>> said agents went to Pufferbelly based on a trademark infringement
>>>> complaint filed in the agency's intellectual property
rights center in
>>>> Washington, D.C.
>>>>
>>>> "One of the things that our agency's responsible for doing is
>>>> protecting the integrity of the economy and our nation's financial
>>>> systems and obviously trademark infringement does have significant
>>>> economic implications," she said.
>>>>
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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