The bill is clearly not about rightsholders, so it is intellectually dishonest to suggest that there is a legitimate concern about power grabs by rightsholders in it. "I watch C-SPAN religiously and they're always talking about IP rights" is not a substitute for reading the bill.
I disagree, but I don't think this subthread is important enough to litigate. If he wants to chime in and say "I absolutely am not saying CISPA is part of a scheme that will increase the powers of rightsholders", I'll apologize for mischaracterizing him.
I absolutely am not saying CISPA is part of a scheme that will increase the powers of "rightsholders." I don't see that in there. I was referring to the "spying" claim of the parent post of my first response.
My concern is with limiting of my right to civil suit against a corporation, and my fear that the bartering of these rights for information bypasses legal constraints on information collecting by government and law enforcement.
Do you think it is reasonable that an auto insurance company that operates under DPPA, or a classroom management service that operates under FERPA, or credit agency operating under FCRA, or nationwide bank under RFPA, or for that matter any online service managing information that could be considered stored communications --- do you think it is reasonable that these organizations should incur either the risk of a class action lawsuit or the expense of tens of thousands of dollars of legal review simply in order to push a worm signature or botnet identification or DDOS netflow information to a public clearinghouse? In other words, do you think it is in the public interest for you to retain the right to sue these kinds of companies to vindicate your theoretical privacy interest in network security data shared in good faith?
Thanks to Declan Mccullagh downthread for making my arguments about CISPA more vivid by citing all the privacy regs CISPA interacts with. :)
Oh: by the way: if I understand you correctly, you're not at all concerned that CISPA is a backdoor attempt to enable copyright enforcement, and by rebutting that idea earlier, I mischaracterized your point. I apologize for doing that. CISPA makes me jumpy.
