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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."

11 of 599 comments (clear)

  1. mffp! by AyeRoxor! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my first first post!

    Please dont mod me too harshly..

    I'll only do it the once, I promise!

    1. Re:mffp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Its not a first post there dude, your the second post. Try again next week.

    2. Re:mffp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Well the other one didn't say first post, so it doesnt count.

    3. Re:mffp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I said don't mod me harshly, bitches

      fuck.

  2. Re:dirty panties? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I fucked that bitch til her pussyhole was raw like hamburger and burnt like the editors of High Times. She said quit, so I nutted all over her face and hair. Hey, its cheaper than conditioner!

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

    Ouch.

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  5. 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.

  6. 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.


    Remember, now you can't say anything about a candidate 90 days before an election or youll go to the pokey

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  7. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post!!

  8. Mod this parent up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HELL YEAH! You hit the nail right on the head. Last I heard... lots of artists die poor. But they don't do it for the money.