On June 18, I mentioned the bill that US Senator Orrin Hatch is introducing which would make it illegal to "induce" someone to commit a copyright violation. Here are a couple more links on the subject.

First, Joanna Glasner covers the reaction of the tech industry to the bill in this Wired.com article:

"As we read it, reporters who wrote about peer-to-peer file-trading networks could well be charged with inducing infringement," he said. "Their definition of inducement seems to cover almost anything." (Wired.com: "File-Trading Bill Stokes Fury", June 24, 2004)

In this article, Ernest Miller annotates Hatch's introduction to the INDUCE Act:

Criminal law defines "inducement" as "that which leads or tempts to the commission of crime." [Luckily, not every temptation is a crime or there would be more people in jail than free.] Some P2P software appears to be the definition of criminal inducement captured in computer code. [Software is a tool. This is the same as saying that bolt-cutters and crowbars are inducements to burglary.] (The Importance Of: "The Obsessively Annotated Introduction to the INDUCE Act", June 24, 2004)

Link via BoingBoing.net.