On October 21st of this year President Clinton signed a bill that includes the "Child Online Protection Act", passed by the 105th Congress on October 7th. It's almost as if they don't think anyone is paying attention. The bill was signed only one year after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the similar Communications Decency Act unconstitutional. The COPA tries to be narrower in its terminology by using the term harmful in replacement of the CDA's indecent. By using such broad a term in 1998 you are leaving a wide array of peoples open to prosecution. And the prosecution for the COPA is a stiff one… a $50000 fine, no more than 6 months in jail, or both. The $50000 fine is for one offense. Every day the offending material is left on the Internet counts as another offense, and another $50000.