Political Quotes

“Let me stress that because the doctrines of contributory and vicarious liability are not obscure, what they say is, if one has rented the premises to people, and as I read the amendment, even if one has rented the premises and one knows what they are using them for and one knows there is this symptomatic effort to violate other people's rights, one is not at all liable. I ask Members to think what the People's Republic of China and other notorious abusers of intellectual property rights could do with these principles, and I guarantee the Members that if we enact these into law here in the United States House of Representatives, efforts by the United States Trade Representative or any others to enforce intellectual property overseas goes down the drain. We are talking about movies. We are talking about books. We are talking about music. We are talking about a number of very important efforts. I do not think that this is an enormous burden.”