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Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers
thejoelpatrol writes "The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by everybody's favorite senator, Orrin Hatch, is moving to outlaw P2P entirely by making it illegal to produce such applications. Hatch says such firms 'think that they can legally profit by inducing children to steal. Some think they can legally lure children into breaking the law with false promises of "free music."' So, when was the last time that Kazaa told kids to steal music? Shouldn't the parents be the ones looking out for their kids? The RIAA is (surprise!) in favor of this, while P2P groups are (surprise!) opposed."
Yes please, will somebody think of the children. They must be protected.
You know, client/server apps can distribute stuff illegally too! Heck, why not outlaw stores and banks, because people can steal things from them! They're effectively encouraging you to take the money from the vault!
ARGH!
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This makes me sick! We better outlaw the production of any software that plays MP3s as well, since they are accessories to the crime of stealing music. Oh, and CD burners, and operating systems, can PCs and phone and cable lines. In fact, someone had just better come over to my house and arrest me right now. Sheesh!
Don't be a looter...and yes, I know that it's spelled with an "A" instead of an "E".
Let's just cut to the fucking chase and outlaw music altogether. That's what my parents always did; if you can't play nice, we're taking the toys.
" Gun manufacturers are not responsible for the actions of the people that use their products, but P2P vendors are?"
Yeah, but what good will P2P do you when the King of England starts pushing you around? Well? That's what I thought.
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Kazaa doesn't steal music, people do...
You can take my limewire from my cold dead hands...
Not to mention awesome statistics like... More music gets stolen every day by bootlegging operations than by p2p users.
Fun Stuff!
Or even better, we could start eliminating kids that are likely to code such appliations in the future!
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I bet RIAA would be in favor of that as well
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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No, no, it's not a firewall, it's a freedom wall!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
We've been trying that forever. For some reason the football team seems to let a few geeks through each year. We need to improve the systems we have, not make new ones!
And with the Internet routing around it (perhaps through Belgium?), it can be no more effective than the Maginot Line.
I'll have some "freedom fries" with that, please... ;-)
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This just in: The Senate Judiciary Committee, is moving to outlaw UUCP. It's obvious that UUCP is stealing profits from legit copyright holders. In the interest of protecting children we owe it to them to free the computers of these malicious functions. From this day forward computers will not be allowed to be networked.
In another not so surprising argument : the copy command (Ctrl-c) and the equally insidious Paste (Ctrl-v) command illegally lure children into breaking the law. The Senate Judiciary Committee has also made a move to ban these commands for all non Gov't purposes.
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