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Senator Plans P2P Summit
ClickTheVote writes "Last fall Senator Norm Coleman held hearings on the RIAA subpoena process, now he is going to convene a P2P Summit. At CES last week he said, 'With the advent of technology such as peer-to-peer networking, law, technology and ethics are now not in synch. We need to find other ways to solve the problems rather than issuing lawsuits and lobbying Congress to pass tougher laws.' Here, here."
Load up your favorite P2P program and do a search for this file!
US SEN NORM COLEMAN P2P DISCUSSION -- SAYS P2P IS GOOD -- MUST READ.txt.exe
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
Yes, a Summit will work! Already through the power of talking-about-things we have eliminated AIDS, poverty and global polution! Now we must turn this formidable weapon to bear on copyright theft!
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These sigs are more interesting tha
From the article:
Other bills are aimed at protecting minors who use P2P software to inadvertently download pornographic material, especially child pornography. The bill would, in effect, limit the availability of P2P software in the process.
I feel better knowing that Sen. Coleman understands who uses P2P and why.
Where?
"/Dread"
sorry, no rock - paper - scissors since ethics always loose =(
AC (who knows games)
Is more government oversight of the Internet, including licensure. We have laws, numerous laws, that cover all kinds of common societal tools. There are laws governing how we use cars, airplanes, how we build buildings, and so on. A license is required to do just about anything, and that system works. We have licensure for driving, operating a radio station, an airplane, and for holding professions like electician or even hair stylist.
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When you attain a license to interact with the public, you demonstrate that you will do so responsibly and not to the detriment of society. If you do, you will lose your license. The time has come to start treating computers the same way. We use computers to interact with society, and therefore we should all be held to a minimum level of competency before we are allowed to do so. Just like a driver's license, if we break the law, we can get points or lose it altogether. Just like a restaurant has to demonstrate that they will act in a manner not to harm the public with tainted food to get a foodservice license, webservers would have to demonstrate that they would act in a manner not to harm the public by serving porn to kids and so on.
The technology already exists to support licensure of computer use. Smart cards would make this easy - just stick your license into the slot in order to use the computer. A periodic examination could be required to maintain proficiency and to renew our commitment to maintaining a safe and pleasurable Internet.
We, as Americans, have got to realize that the government is here for a reason, to make our lives better. More government oversight and regulation has always been the answer to cleaning up indistries that exploit the masses, and it has always worked. Government interventiion has made our environment clean, made our roads safe, made our food supply pure, made flying risk-free, and has generally improved the standard of living for everyone.
Regulating the use of computers just like any other licensed activity will undoubtedly fix all the problems that exist on the Internet today...
Oh crap, did I forget my sarcasm metatags? No wait, should have been troll hehe...
Let's just see who knee-jerk replies before reading down this far
My karma can afford it
"I believe we need the technology experts, the computer industry, the peer-to-peer industry, the software industry, the entertainment industry, the privacy experts and the business experts to come together"
I like how "customers" doesn't appear in this list.
"We need to find other ways to solve the problems rather than issuing lawsuits and lobbying Congress to pass tougher laws."
What, is this guy some kind of Communist or something? Lawsuits and lobbying are right up there with baseball and apple pie...