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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.
Man, am I beginning to be annoyed, by all of the technically illiterate congress members, whose shortsightedness knows no bounds. I bet they scream bloody murder the day one their computer goes down, because a campaign volunteer downloaded an mp3.
This is a sig, there are many like it, but this is mine.
Eat tainted meat, breathe polluted air, corporations will be the new government, bend over for the 1%, care only for yourself, vote republican or democrat.
Given the technical nature of the Internet, all this act will do is push file sharing underground.. A new system will be developed that is totally anonymous and will be impossible for the FBI to successfully track them. (private wireless networks anyone?) Congress does not seem to realize that they cannot police the Internet like any medium.. If they actually knew a damn thing about the internet and would stop listening to their lobbyists who all want control over each and every consumer on the internet, then maybe things such as this, the DMCA, these state super dmcas, and all these other stupid bills would stop coming up every month or so it seems.
The more control we allow the government over our lives the more the government will take from us.
Power == Control == Corruption
I look around and see all this patriotism in the united states, and I just do not understand how blind some of these people are. Granted the US isn't the worst country to live in (but if we dont do something soon, i fear it could end up this way, especially if another terror attack happens and more bills that take away our freedom and privacy are passed).
What the FUCK has the US become??