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Senator Plans P2P Summit

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-discussion dept.

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."

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  1. Who uses P2P legally? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    So has anyone here ever used a p2p app *legally*?

    This is a typical conversation:

    Friend: Damn those RIAA, suing filesharers! P2P can be used legally too y'know!
    Me: Have you ever used it legally?
    Friend: ... no ...
    Friend: but that's not the point!

    I have yet to hear a good reason for not just banning p2p outright - I'm for the technology and all, it's just I have yet to meet someone who uses it legally...

  2. Re:Strange that all these media executives by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 0, Troll
    are finding themselves in favor of more regulations. Whatever happened to letting the market decide?

    I don't know, but perhaps it's time for citizens to start calling for the government to enact a tough rating system on Hollywood and the music industry. They don't seem to think people can decide for themselves between right and wrong, so why should we assume Hollywood can judge the ratings of their own movies? There should be two government mandated ratings: SFC (safe for children) and NSFC (not safe for children). Basically NSFC would be anything a fair and balanced Christian wouldn't show to their 10 year old. Then we just ban all NSFC movies from theaters within a 50 mile radius of a school and only allow them to be shown between the hours of 11pm and midnight.

  3. Real Power by handy_vandal · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wellstone was murdered, that much is reasonable. (Not bad weather; not a bad plane; pilots had criminal backgrounds; plane burning on the way down; plane burned to a crisp -- I smell a rat.)

    But not murdered "by Coleman" ... or "by Bush" for that matter. Those guys benefitted from Wellstone's death, sure -- but they're not the power players.

    Coleman may be a two-faced hypocritical spins-like-a-weathervane goody-goody suck-up yes man -- for starters -- but he's not a murderous power broker. I doubt if anyone with real power would trust Coleman with real power.

    The real Power -- the one that assassinates Senators (and President Kennedy, for that matter) -- resides outside government: secret coalitions of tycoons and spooks and mobsters.

    -kgj

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    -kgj