On April 31, 2002, Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) introduced to the Senate Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002, which extended punishments of counterfeiting of labelling and packaging, such as in cases of mass piracy and re-sale of software, to the counterfeiting of authentication features such as holographic stickers. This generally seems like a decent idea. On July 18, the bill was reported to the Senate-- but rewritten to "make it a federal felony to try and trick certain types of devices into playing your music or running your computer program. Breaking this law-- even if it's to share music by your own garage band-- could land you in prison for up to five years. And that's not counting the civil penalties of up to $25,000 per offense." (Not the best article, but it's the first one I've seen so far.) This makes the bill irresponsibly broad anti-circumvention legislation in addition to its original intent of reasonable anti-counterfeiting measures. The bill, with its last minute change, is being fast-tracked and is expected to have an "overwhelmingly positive floor vote."