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Click this link to a study of Illinois State University students:

 www.ece.cmu.edu/~peha/dimensions_of_piracy.pdf

President Bush signed s.  3325 into law on October 14th, 2008.  Although the bill had some poorly conceived parts removed, the fundamental and significant parts remained intact.

A White House press release provides a glimpse at what the bill is meant to accomplish:

This legislation helps protect the rights of America’s consumers, workers, and entrepreneurs by strengthening both our civil and criminal laws against counterfeiting and piracy. Specifically, the Act increases statutory damage awards in civil counterfeiting cases, it strengthens remedies available in the prosecution of criminal cases involving counterfeiting and piracy, it enhances resources (personnel, training, and equipment) for Department of Justice programs that combat IP theft, and makes permanent the Administration’s Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP!) Initiative and its inter-agency IP coordination efforts.

Here is the White House press release that announced President Bush signing s. 3325 into law.

Here is the full text of the actual bill (not just a summary).