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> 21-W:7 Role of Law Enforcement. No member of law enforcement in the state of New Hampshire, or any of its political subdivisions, shall assist federal law enforcement in any investigation or prosecution of copyright claims or other claims of intellectual property crimes brought by makers of proprietary software against makers of competing free and open software projects.

Granted, most IP is civil but preempting even investigation seems, er, overly broad.

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Oh yeah, this isn't going to pass. Not with something ridiculous like this in there. I don't understand why this is in there. It seems like someone is trying to slip this past the lawmakers. So if someone steals Google proprietary code and puts it in their open-source project, and hosts it in New Hampshire, the state won't assist the feds track down the owner? What does that accomplish? How does that help legitimate open-source?

I mean, it's a federal law, why should state law enforcement even be involved - especially if the state disagrees with the law that is being enforced?

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