Berman Retreats, But Only To Regroup

thefinite writes "It looks like the P2P vigilante bill sponsored by Berman is going to have to be rewritten even just to be considered. A ZDNet story talks about the likelihood that the bill will get anywhere as currently written. Hopefully, the second time around will make it clear that the idea is flawed, not just the text."

Comments

First berman post

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:8=D

[Anonymous Coward]

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8=======================D

That, good sir, is a penis.

10th post

[Anonymous Coward]

10th post

Am I Crazy, Or What?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it just me, or do all of E. Dickenson's poems match-up to "Yellow Rose of Texas" quite well?

Sounds good to me

[Faggot]

Am I the only one who sees the similarity to the modern Anti-Terrorism Plan and the old Salem Witch Hunts?

Oh, surely not. Plenty of people see it. There are differences though. During the Witch Trials people were crazy because they were poisoned with rye fungus, something the people knew nothing about. But today, it's Islam that's poisoning people's minds, and we know plenty of ways to take care of it so it doesn't get to the point of indiscriminately burning people alive.

Sure, there are plenty of innocent followers of Islam, just like there are plenty of music/software pirates who are otherwise good people. But instead of ignoring the source of a problem, a very real problem which is killing people every day, why not meet it head-on? It's no secret that most terrorists today are Islamic. 9/11, all the suicide bombings in Israel, Islamic Chechens holding 700 innocent godless Russians in a theater, the recent sniper attacks... to ignore the unifying factor is to ignore the truth. Something must be done, and I am glad that there are people in power in this country who aren't afraid to start somewhere.

my god, rather than restricting our personal

[the_2nd_coming]

freedoms by allowing corperations to hack out computers, why not just outlaw P2P services that support the ability to send and receive certain file types like MP3/Divx, etc.

sure a minority of the people who trade LEGAL audio and video through this system will lose out, but you also lose the majority who are criminals....even if it is unworkable by the p2p folk, it at least makes it legal to have P2P software and keeps corperations from hacking my PC.