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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.

  3. 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.