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Piracy Deterrence and Education Act Introduced
Bootsy Collins writes "Last Thursday in the U.S. Congress,
H.R. 2517
was quietly introduced and referred to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill, authored by Lamar Smith (R-TX) and co-sponsored by Howard Berman (D-CA),
directs the FBI
to develop methods of deterring copyright violation through use of peer-to-peer networks, including efforts to facilitate sharing information about suspected violators amongst law enforcement agencies. It also directs the Justice Department to develop programs to educate the American public on why copyright violation is bad. Berman, you may remember, introduce a bill last year that would give the RIAA and MPAA wide latitude to
crack suspected violators' computers.
" Update: 06/23 17:03 GMT by S : We also covered a variant of this story on Saturday.
It also directs the Justice Department to develop programs to educate the American public on why copyright violation is bad
Piracy's bad......mmmmkay?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Based on the headline, I breifly held the hope that they would educate you on how to P2P. However, I then made the mistake of reading the summary. So what have we learned from this? It's not enough that you don't read the article before posting, you also can't read the summary before posting. If I hadn't, I could have posted a "OMG 3y3 can't bel3ive thye R go1ng to t34ch us to p1r4t3!!!!!!!1111", but now I'm stuck with this lame post instead.
God forbid the FBI go after dangerous criminals ... I feel much safer with pot smokers and warez kiddies behind bars.
But don't you realize that File Sharing is a gateway crime? It leads to fraud, prostitution, murder, and massive drug dealing. For the love of god Think of the children!
Is this a trick question?
Hate me!
Not too many conservative lawmakers representing Vermont these days ;)
I did, however, write with regularity to my conservative N.C. representatives when I lived there. I figured every minute some monkey spent reading a letter from a flaming liberal commie asshole like me was one less minute they could be holding prayer meetings or what have you.
I'm a little confused. I thought we didn't even have enough money to keep the arts in schools anymore.
But don't you realize that File Sharing is a gateway crime?
I see filesharing as more of a proxy crime myself...
No statement is true, not even this one.
I don't think you're taking this seriously enough.
According to this article today's Guardian, pirates killed or injured 145 people at sea in the first three months of this year. There are calls for the Royal Navy to station warships in the affected areas, to protect trade routes.
So you see, piracy is an ongoing and deadly threat... oh wait... *reads thread again*... Somebody seems to have started using the word "piracy" to mean "copyright violation". What an odd thing to do.
I can see it now.....
"If you use P2P, you're supporting Terrorism!"
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"including efforts to facilitate sharing information about suspected violators amongst law enforcement agencies"
;)
hmmmmm, i wonder how they could get all that information out to so many agencies quickly and effeciently. is there some kind of way to share files between a large group of users that can balance the bandwidth load between all the users???
you're all figments of my deranged imagination
Ugh. That reminds me of this awful commercial that just started playing up (Ontario, Canada) here on Rogers Cable...
It starts out with this 10 year old-ish boy walking out of a convenience store with a candy bar, and the shop owner runs out and accuses him of shoplifting it.
The scene then jumps to a cops dropping the kid off at his parents house.
The scene jumps again to inside the house, the kid is sitting on the couch with his father next to him. The father asks, "Did your friends put you up to it?" The kid shakes his head. "Then where did you learn to steal?" The kid looks up at his father with big deer in front of headlights eyes and says, "But Dad, you steal satellite signals!"
It then cuts to a white screen with the words "theft is theft" written on it in large black courier font with the sound of sirens and police radio in the background.
The funny thing is that the commercial makes me want to "steal satellite signals" just so I know my money wouldn't be going to fund such dreck.
So, apparently the progression is: P2P leads to Warez. Warez leads to Satellite Hacking. Satellite Hacking leads to Shoplifting, and so on and so on.
So remember, kids! Every time you download a song off the Internet, you kill a baby panda!
I just want to take over the world...Why does that automatically make me EVIL?
Ok so since when did it become ok for MY tax dollars to go towards protecting the copyrighted material of a company? You are taking MY money away to ensure the flow of money to someone ELSE....what the fuck?
"The saddest words of mice and men, are not those which were, but should have been."
And every time you download stolen copyrighted porn material off Kazaa and masterbate to it, a ninja kills a kitten! So in theory, Kazaa kills kittens. This is why the FBI and government want to shut down P2P networks, because after all who wants to kill a cute little kitten?
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