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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. OT .sig quibble by TheConfusedOne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Remember: The old adage "fight fire with fire" does not apply to non-metaphorical fires.

    Actually, back-burns are a classic way of fighting forrest fires. The idea is to deprive the larger fire of the fuel it needs to continue spreading.

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  2. GWB's next political ad: by Jonboy+X · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "George Bush: The choice of a new generation" Wait, or is it, "George Bush: The Joy of Bush! Baa bup-ba baaa, ba ba bup-ba baa..."

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  3. Re:Just to drive it home a little more by 72beetle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Brilliant. Damn, I wish I had some mod points to give ya.

    -72

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