Ashcroft asked to target Net song swappers

[Czar]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-08-09-law-music-swap_x.htm

Ashcroft asked to target Net song swappers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? U.S. lawmakers have asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to go after Internet users who download unauthorized songs and other copyrighted material, raising the possibility of jail time for digital-music fans.


In a July 25 letter released late Thursday, some 19 lawmakers from both sides of the aisle asked Ashcroft to prosecute "peer-to-peer" networks like Kazaa and Morpheus and the users who swap digital songs, video clips and other files without permission from artists or their record labels.

The Justice Department should also devote more resources to policing online copyrights, the lawmakers said in their letter.

 

[bmacd]

and THIS is what our tax dollars are being spent on.

-=bmacd=-

 

[Killbat]

I'm still baffled as to why gnutella is somehow off these dingus' radar. I never hear anybody attacking it, they're always Kazaa this and Morpheus that.

If the only way they can find to attack P2P is to shut down specific client software, well, good luck buttholes.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: bmacd
and THIS is what our tax dollars are being spent on.

-=bmacd=-

Yeah inforcing the law

How Sad. They should be spending the money on welfare and stuff

 

[Danman]

They suck.

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: bmacd
and THIS is what our tax dollars are being spent on.

-=bmacd=-

Yeah inforcing the law

How Sad. They should be spending the money on welfare and stuff

**high detection from sarcasm meter**

*enforcing, BTW...

-=bmacd=-

 

[Killbat]

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: bmacd
and THIS is what our tax dollars are being spent on.

-=bmacd=-

Yeah inforcing the law

How Sad. They should be spending the money on welfare and stuff

Or maybe education?

 

[rbhawcroft]

Originally posted by: Czar
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-08-09-law-music-swap_x.htm

Ashcroft asked to target Net song swappersThe Justice Department should also devote more resources to policing online copyrights, the lawmakers said in their letter.

how gay are these people, havent they analysed the p2p infrastructure and realised that they can only stop it buy shutting down offending ISPs?, after all kazaa, and DC have definite IP addresses and protocols dont they?!?