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Congress to Ashcroft: Go After Song Swappers

Posted by chrisd on from the the-fascist-states-of-america dept.

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."

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  1. Thar Be Network Congestion Ahead, Mateys! by DarkZero · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  2. Shut down the whole WORLD WIDE WEB! by HanzoSan · · Score: 4, Funny



    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!

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  3. Scenario by Ironpoint · · Score: 5, Funny


    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...

  4. What the focus is... by rosewood · · Score: 3, Funny

    Need a group on Terrorism, check
    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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