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P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle
geekee writes "CNET posted an article claiming you could be liable for $250,000 in fines and up to 3 years in prison for p2p file sharing. This is due to an obscure law called the No Electronic Theft (NET) act passed in 1997 (signed by Bill Clinton). Although the Justice Department has not prosecuted anyone under this new law, some members of congress have asked John Ashcroft to begin prosecuting. In response to the request, John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, said to expect some NET Act prosecutions."
ummmm hey dude, read your constitution....we are not a democracy but a republic. so sorry to burst your dream of American democracy
Who said the U.S. (I assume you meant U.S. when you said "America") was a Democracy? "...to the flag and to the *REPUBLIC* for which it stands..." (pledge).
Think "mob rule" works? I dont.
-Jhon
A democracy is not the same thing as a representative democracy. The founders of the United States never intended for the U.S. to be a democracy. You're not from the U.S. so I can't expect you to know this. But those modding the parent up to 5 should probably take a U.S. government course.
every one of the Camp X-ray inmates were captured during operations in which they were fighting our troops.
Well, if the government said so, it must be true, my Saudi friend.
Well, there is also the fact that half of those detainees were sent over by the Pakistani government for trying to cross the border......of course refugees would never try to cross the border....