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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.
Guess we should stop teaching our kids that sharing is good....
With somewhere around a quarter of the US population engaging in filesharing, I suspect that corporate-run prisons will be a growth sector over the coming years.
All my porn comes from P2P! How am I supposed to get it now?!
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OK, now I understand why the Supreme Court recently legalized sodomy. Clearly, it was necessary to make it legal before the RIAA and the US government start systematically buggering the general public.
<RIAA spokesperson>
Lube? What do you mean, lube? You're a thief, plain and simple, so you're going to be buggered in the exact manner that I specify. Which means no lube!
</RIAA spokesperson>
Plus, that way you get those amazing liner notes!
In order to get the most benefit out of this bill, I guess the labels will be raising the retail price of their CDs to $250.
I think it's time for the people of the United States to band together, chip in, and buy ourselves a politician or two. Maybe with a bit left over we can even get a couple of lobbyists.
- vphl
What if you allow someone on fisherman's wharf to play mp3s on a computer along the shore? That is file sharing and it is on a pier to pier network.
Oi! Watch it mate, some of my best friends are rabid tasmanian devils.
Wait, so if I write a song that contains an E-F chord progression and then upload it onto the KaZaa network, can I be charged with a felony?
Then, can I punch Lars in the face? Repeatedly?
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Up to 5 years in prison?
What we need to do is get Berman in prison, that's the real problem here.
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> the penalties are much less, even though shoplifting actually hurts more people.
Well, no, you shouldn't teach that to kids. If they are smart enough to figure it out on their own, great! If not, that means fewer people stealing the CDs that are rightfully mine to steal!
(Just to let you know, this is not a disguised statement of my feelings on the subject, just a bad joke)
A kind reminder from the Ministry of Love...
There's no wrong way, to eat a Rhesus...
(Dials up his ISP and brings down a couple MP3s for old times.)
>Unless something really interesting comes up, there should be no +mods, although there will be, because Mods moderate when they agree, not when they think it's important.
I agree! Damn, I wish I had some mod points to mod you up!
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But good for you guys for working it out. :)