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Congress to Ashcroft: Go After Song Swappers
saikou writes "Yahoo has published a news about proposal of 19 lawmakers to prosecute P2P systems' users. Allthough Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, said that FBI should not go for casual users but but instead to go after operators of "network "nodes", there is not enough info in the story to see if this "should" will change to "must in addition to", if or when trying to arrest major node operators fails to curtain song swapping online. Of course, questions of what to do about foreign users and foreign music are omitted. RIAA claps its hands. I guess we should expect network congestion because of users, downloading everything in their sight to beat this initiative."
He'll probably only take action for fear that his hit single "Let the Eagle Sore" will be pirated.
God help us all...
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Read more about these illegal, filthy actions and more in RFC 2616.
Aw, fuck it. Let's go bowling. - The Big Lebowski
I guess we should expect network congestion because of users, downloading everything in their sight to beat this initiative.
Let loose the sails, mateys! Aye, we be setting course fer WinMX fer one last pillaging, arr...
I can see it now.
"You can go ahead and release those terrorists from Cell Block A, we have some new comers here."
"Oh, who are they?"
"Sally, Age 15. Eric, Age 17 and Linda, their mother, age 42."
"What they do? Kill families? Rape children? Run a plane into buildings?!"
"Nope, they downloaded Britney Spears latest song off Kazaa"
Just like we can blame doom creator john carmack for inciting violence at columbine, we can blame the creators of gnutella for inciting piracy.
Lets create new laws to slowly shut down the world wide web, I mean we capitalists worked hard ot gain control of the web, and if we cant have it, no one can!
Lets show those GNU pengiun loving open source pirates that sharing is bad! Lets make them so afrraid to share that they'll be forced to work for us!
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Inmate 1: What are you in for?
Inmate 2: I blew this guys face off with a shotgun because he didn't have my money. And you?
Inmate 1: I downloaded some Weird Al mp3's and uploaded that video of the monkey sniffing his finger and falling over.
Inmate 2: Sicko. You disgust me, its people like you...
Need a group on Terrorism, check
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Need a group on Kiddie Porn, check
Need a group on Kid Napping, check
Need a group on serial murders, check
Need a group on drug traffic, check
Need a group on tax fraud, check
Need a group on smugglers, check
Need a group on file swapers
Hmmm
Note to self: Dont pay taxes this year
Ammendum to note to self: Dont pay taxes this year and move to zanzabar and start taking opium rectally
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while trying to absolutly nail Martha Stewart, I would say they were correct. They should leave Martha alone. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have matching stuff in my bathroom and chicks love a guy with matching stuff in his bathroom.
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This is an OXFAM^H^H^H^H^H RIAA appeal, for the record companies of America. Every day, Music bosses loose millions of dollars. Dollars that feed their families, buy their yachts, and fuel their Learjets. Good people such as AOL-Time Warner and Disney, are doing their best to make a living for themselves, but they need your help.. Just $2 could help win a senator such as Fritz Hollings, just $2 could go towards the legal fees needed to bring down a pirate, and just $2 could press 100 music CDs or DVDs that could be sold off for $20 a piece. We need your help urgently, so, please send, just $2, or whatever you can afford...
Remember - give a man a lawyer, and he can run a company for a day. But give a man the money to bribe a senator, and he can change the law to run his company for years to come.
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