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  3. "Recently Japan’s legislature has approved a bill revising the nation’s Copyright Law to add criminal penalties for downloading

"Recently Japan’s legislature has approved a bill revising the nation’s Copyright Law to add criminal penalties for downloading

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问题    "Recently Japan’s legislature has approved a bill revising the nation’s Copyright Law to add criminal penalties for downloading copyrighted material making DVD backups and maybe watching YouTube illegal. The penalties will come into effect in October. You know, there’s a fairly constant pattern in the world of copyright enforcement. The media companies claim that piracy is ’ destroying’ their industries, although they never offer any independent evidence to back this up. They ’ demand’ that governments ’ do something’ —by which they mean introduce harsher penalties for unauthorized downloads. After the laws come in to force, online sharing may dip for a while, but soon returns to previous levels, so the media companies start complaining again, and demand yet tougher penalties. "
   Comment 1:
   If any of those participants in this never-ending cycle stood back and looked at what was happening, they would see that the very fact the copyright companies keep coming back for more and harsher copyright laws offers clear proof that the current approach just isn’t working.
   Comment 2:
   To make it illegal to sell a device that enables playback of copied data would mean making illegal computers in general, since that’s what a computer at the most basic level is—a copy machine. This is why I am against copyright law. The only way to make an effective copyright law would be to severely enforce a law that says computers and all other tools that can be used to copy are illegal, which is too high a price to pay.
   Comment 3:
   What should happen is the entertainment industries on the whole should be totally banned from the internet, from owning or operating any web site and from having any of their material available for download from anywhere. ISPs seem to be ignorant of the fact that the more these industries demand, the more they get but it is never enough and will never be enough.
   Comment 4:
   This is just making sure there are only two types of people in Japan. Those that are in prison, and those that will soon be on their way to prison.
   Comment 5:
   The act of viewing anything online is downloading. Even though it is temporary, the act of loading a webpage would technically be illegal.
   Comment 6:
   I suggest someone should start a petition against this law immediately just to give those copyright jerks a reminder of what happens when they demand stupid and useless laws.
   Comment 7:
   Given that media industries are able to make exaggerated claims without proof, can we not turn the tables on them? Get a grass roots movement going, get some momentum and take it to congress. Demand more piracy to encourage creativity and increase sales and profits.
According to the writer of the blog, what might be the result of the enforcement of the new bill?
选项 A、The online sharing will be greatly reduced.
B、It won’t have any impact on unauthorized downloads on line.
C、The media companies won’t be satisfied with its temporary effect.
D、Penalties for unauthorized downloads will become less severe.
答案C
解析     细节题。可套用公式：正确答案=原文中含有题干中心词的一句话一题干中心词。根据题干中的关键词the result of the enforcement of the new bill回到原文定位，本题在原文的出处是博客的最后一句话。去掉该句与关键词意思相同的After the laws come in to force后，所剩的online sharing may dip for a while，but soon returns to previous levels，so the media companies start complaining again，and demand yet tougher penalties就是本题的答案。根据前半句，可以排除A选项The online sharing will be greatly reduced(网络共享会大大减少)及B选项It won’t have any impact on unauthorized downloads on line(对未经授权的下载不会有任何影响)都与原文表述不符，应予以排除。根据后半句话可以看出C选项The media companies won’t be satisfied with its temporary effect(媒体公司对法律起到的短暂效果不满意)与原文表述相符，因此是正确答案；同时可以判断D选项Penalties for unauthorized downloads will become less severe(对未经授权的下载的处罚会减轻)与原文语义不符。
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