RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn'

watchful.babbler writes "Having largely failed to galvanize public and political action against P2P systems, the RIAA has mounted a campaign to link P2P systems with child pornography (NYT, reg. required). The result is H. R. 2885 (available via Thomas), which has the remarkably clear and honest intent 'To prohibit the distribution of peer-to-peer file trading software in interstate commerce.' Amongst other things, the proposed law will require the creation of 'do-not-install beacon products' (do-not-ask, you really don't want to know), force P2P apps to include warning labels that users may be exposed to pornography, and require P2P developers and distributors to obtain and store users' personal information -- ostensibly for age verification, but one can think of other reasons that the RIAA might be interested in that info. Worse yet, even given the 'operation exemption' (Sec. (4)(b)(1)(C) in the bill), applications such as AIM and iChat appear to fall under these provisions."

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Off course, we know what it really means

[WegianWarrior]

It means that the RIAA has finally realised that it can't stop people sharing music over P2P. Thus, knowing that no one in power would dare stop anything that pretends to combat something as vile as childpornografy, they change their aim - at least to outwards apperance.

Lets tell it to the politicans; the RIAA has no legitimate reason to stop people sharing childporn. The only semiofficiall organisation in the US that may have a legitimate reason to do that is the MIAA, and then only for childporn made by their members (which could lead to a lot of akward quiestions later...).

The focus of the RIAA is to prevent people from swapping music, thus making people buy overpriced CDs instead. Everything else is just blue smoke and mirrors.

As for the pedophiles... well, I guess a bullet in the head will 'cure' their sick lusts...