03-29-2004, 05:08 AM
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10 years in prison for file sharing???
Wired has an interesting front page article today:
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 ten years for file sharing.
(rest is at http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0...w=wn_tophead_1)
Now I'm all for record companies and movie studios to make a fair profit off of their work (keyword: FAIR), but come on - 10 years for posting a bad copy of a movie that's going to be out in theatres next week? And I suppose if you rape and murder someone while videotaping it you'll get an extra 5 or so years tacked on, with possibility of parole in 6 months.
Of course, the other nice fact is that it only took $150,000 to pay off a republican senator, and about 10 grand more for a democrat. you get such a deal with those republicans :roll:
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