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.

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Sharing....

[mindshadow]

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

Time to invest in prisons!

[PIPBoy3000]

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.

Supreme court

[dipipanone]

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>

Re:Now better off with armed robbery

[killmenow]

Plus, that way you get those amazing liner notes!

Re:Time for publicly funded politicians?

[velophile]

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.

Re:Anybody got a dime

[cosmo7]

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.

Does this mean...

[ZaMoose]

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?