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House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony

Posted by michael on from the thumb-on-the-scales-of-justice dept.

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.

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  1. Sharing.... by mindshadow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Guess we should stop teaching our kids that sharing is good....

  2. Time to invest in prisons! by PIPBoy3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Time to invest in prisons! by Toasty981 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Following this trend , let's just do what Britain used to do and outsource our prisoners!

    2. Re:Time to invest in prisons! by deacon · · Score: 3, Funny
      That is true.

      Cause in China, you get executed for petty little things like embezelment, speaking out against the state, etc. etc.

  3. No! by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 3, Funny

    All my porn comes from P2P! How am I supposed to get it now?!

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  4. Supreme court by dipipanone · · Score: 4, Funny

    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>

  5. Re:Now better off with armed robbery by killmenow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Plus, that way you get those amazing liner notes!

  6. New CD pricing? by Polymath+Crowbane · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:Time for publicly funded politicians? by velophile · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:Anybody got a dime by cosmo7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  9. Does this mean... by ZaMoose · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  10. More serious crime than some violent crimes? by gorbachev · · Score: 3, Funny

    Up to 5 years in prison?

    What we need to do is get Berman in prison, that's the real problem here.

    Proletariat of the world, unite to kill politicians who've been bought

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