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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. Re:Uhm...EXCUSE ME!!! by jred · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, you post at 0, he posts at +2. Rarely do I browse at less than +3, and I'm sure most who eligible to mod wouldn't browse at 0 either. Even if I have mod points, I can't. I tried a few times, but it was a futile effort.

    So that's why he got modded up and you didn't.

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  2. Re:Uhm...EXCUSE ME!!! by dimator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ouch.

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  3. Re:The gallery of idiots... by antirename · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Aren't these the same stooges who always vote for gun control? Just a thought.

  4. Re:The gallery of idiots... by nexex · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I don't know but they all probably all voted to repeal free speech, err I mean campaign finance reform.


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