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04-29-2004, 11:33 PM
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Congress moves to criminalize P2P
Congress appears to be preparing assaults against peer-to-peer technology on multiple fronts.
A draft bill recently circulated among members of the House Judiciary Committee would make it much easier for the Justice Department to pursue criminal prosecutions against file sharers by lowering the burden of proof. The bill, obtained Thursday by Wired News, also would seek penalties of fines and prison time of up to 10 years for file sharing. In addition, on Thursday, Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) introduced a bill that would allow the Justice Department to pursue civil cases against file sharers, again making it easier for law enforcement to punish people trading copyright music over peer-to-peer networks. They dubbed the bill "Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004," or the Pirate Act. http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0...wn_polihead_12
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04-29-2004, 11:56 PM
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they have no fuckin clue... bastards..
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04-29-2004, 11:57 PM
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It will be smacked down like a set shot in front of Shaq.
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04-29-2004, 11:59 PM
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04-30-2004, 12:02 AM
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"As the 40 percent increase in downloads over the last year makes alarmingly clear, like it or not file sharing is likely to (continue) on a massive scale no matter how many suits are brought and what the fine print of copyright or criminal law says," Eisgrau said. "Second, putting a tiny percentage of tens of millions of American file sharers behind bars or in the poorhouse won't put one new dime in the deserving pockets of artists and other copyright owners."
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04-30-2004, 12:05 AM
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they are criminalizing everything else, why not p2p
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