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Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on P2P Dangers

Posted by timothy on from the step-lively-now dept.

marshall11 writes "From the Senate Judiciary Committee's website: "The Senate Committee on the Judiciary scheduled for today at 2:00 p.m., on "The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Could Personal and National Security Risks Compromise the Potential of P2P File-Sharing Networks?" has been rescheduled for Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Building.' Ok /.ers who knows what's going on with this? It's only a week away; is anyone testifying or appearing as a friend of the Committee? Is anyone planning on testifying? What issues are going to be raised?"

10 comments

  1. Prepare to lose karma... by GuyMannDude · · Score: 1, Informative

    Okay, I guess this is pretty much guaranteed to rob me of karma, but how the hell did this submission get accepted? There is NOTHING here! NOTHING! You go to the website and it says NOTHING! It's just some guy asking a "did you hear that..." question. Shouldn't an article on "News for Nerds" contain a tiny smidgen of actual news or information?

    I'm not going to castigate the poster for failing to do research because I tried a google search right now and couldn't find anything myself. But I don't see how this submission can be accepted as a YRO article or even an Ask Slashdot for that matter.

    Maybe the fact that there is no available information about this hearing means that it's not really important.

    Mods, I await your wrath...
    GMD

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    1. Re:Prepare to lose karma... by Kalak · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Maybe the fact that there is no available information about this hearing means that it's not really important.

      Or the lack of available info on this may show that it was trying to be slipped in under the radar of those who are speaking about the "Dark Side" being not as dark as they think. I'm sure there are tons of committee hearings that we don't hear about on /. afterall. This one just happens to be about a subject talked about here frequently, and a bunch of Senators are getting to talk about it. I can't think of a reason the time and place of it should be posted here. After all, no one on /. can see what Senators are on the committee and call them, no one on /. lives in DC, and no one watches the news anyway.

      It's not like we can do anything to contribute. Much better to moan about it on /.

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    2. Re:Prepare to lose karma... by ralphclark · · Score: 1
      Nah - if you were, you would have spelt Kahless' name correctly.

      ...D'Oh!!!

    3. Re:Prepare to lose karma... by Alsee · · Score: 1

      I would say that the senate judiciary committee announcing a meeting on the "darkside of P2P" is newsworthy information.

      I agree that it sucks that that is all the information available on the website, but hopefully someone else will be able to locate more info and post it here. The website left the witness list blank. I hope someone can dig that up.

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    4. Re:Prepare to lose karma... by marshall11 · · Score: 1

      Thanks for not castigating me. I actually submitted it as an "Ask Slashdot." Honest. I tried to do research too and when I couldn't find anything I decide to submit it under Ask Slashdot. For some reason though, somehow, it got changed to a "Your Rights Online." I couldn't find it for over a week. I thought the editors were holding onto it for some reason.

  2. Short answer to the Committee by Kalak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes.

    So could the spy decoder ring in a box of cereal, the fertilizer in our local hardware store, and so could the rat poison, the SSL self-signed cert I created a few days ago, so could......

    Judging by the title of "The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Could Personal and National Security Risks Compromise the Potential of P2P File-Sharing Networks?", I'd say that someone's mind is made up already. The "Dark Side" of anything is not going to be shown in a positive "light".

    I hope someone is there to represent wiser heads. At the rate things are going, ACs on /. posting from proxies the US builds to get aroung the Great Firewall will be the only way Terrorists can communicate.

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  3. no Friends of the Committee here... by dpilot · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you want to speak with Friends of the Committee, I'd suggest you start with public relations offices of the RIAA or MPAA.

    Boy is that a cynical and UGLY attempt at a joke. Or is it a diatribe at the truth?

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  4. Was afraid of this... by marshall11 · · Score: 1

    Absolutely nothing gets said before this hearing happens and then all we get to hear is Sen. Hatch ridiculous comments.

    As a note to others, I submitted this last week in an attempt to raise intelligent discussion *before* the hearing, because I was fairly certain there wasn't going to be any *during* the event.

    This is one of those times when I hate being right.