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House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony
JAgostoni writes "Wired news has an article about a new bill that would make it a felony to upload a file to a P2P network." EFF has a copy of the bill online. Conyers and Berman both get over a quarter of their campaign funding from Hollywood, according to opensecrets.org. You may remember Berman from this bill and this one.
If file sharing becomes illegal...ut oh!
Bye-bye Bill Gates. You built-in to Windows the ability to share files and folders on a network. FOOM! There goes windows.
It's back to Windows 3.X for us!
Speaking of File sharing....isn't a webpage basicly a rudimentary shared file of text files, Images, and multimedia content?
FOOM! There goes the internet.
I read the law I cited, I understand the distinctions, and I have no intention of apologizing for countering misinformation with fact. That copyright infringement is a civil, not a criminal, offense has been posted more times than I care to recall on this board, and the statutes clearly define both classes of ingringement. The poster to whom I replied did not discuss the distinctions, he/she stated baldly that copyright infringement was a civil offense.
If anybody is owed an apology, it is me for your presumptuous lecturing on a topic I had already researched and cited.
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
Original postition: copyright violation is not criminal (general case)
Your response: yes it is, read the law (general case)
rebuttal: no it is not, read the law:only in very specific case is it criminal
your attempt to rebut rebuttal: original position was bald!
Your response was as hairless.
If you did read it, it appears you did not read it closely. If you did read it closely, you did not summarize accurately.
No apology due you, probably one due from you.