As a result, violations of the law and abuses of the intent of the law have lessened the financial rewards of authors, artists and producers.

They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.

But if it is enacted, Google will in effect be off the hook as far as?copyright violations in the US are concerned.