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.

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Can you say RUBE?

[afidel]

I thought you could.
This man is bought and paid for.

Re:What is the program?

[geekoid]

" It's caused increased violence, helped to fund terrorism, and not slowed down the drug problem."

and how can you possible know any of that is true? wouldn't you need something to compare it to?

(OT)The opinions you choose to value

[yerricde]

ACs need not reply ... and and if you do not offer me the respect of knowing my communicant, I will not read your post

Creating an account on Slashdot requires reading figures from a GIF image in some sort of "humanconf" system. Therefore, blind people cannot create accounts on Slashdot. By your own admission, which I quote above, you do not value an opinion expressed on Slashdot by any person without a Slashdot account. Therefore, you do not value the opinions expressed on Slashdot by people with vision disabilities.

Please defend.