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."

Comments

Re:Next Year...

[Alranor]

or sever the US from the rest of the internet

There are times when I almost wish you'd do that, at least then the rest of us wouldn't get anywhere near as much spam as we do now.

Stealing.

[Allen Zadr]

Copyright infringement is still wrong. If you are sharing your music with people you actually know, fine - - so be it. It's sharing (though still not legal).

However, if you are putting your music on a public network (Gnutella, Kazaa, Website, FTP, it doesn't matter) this action is both morally and legally wrong.

When someone takes, copies or distributes something of value without permission, that action is generally referred to as stealing. Even if it doesn't fit the "legal" definition, that's the way people use the English language... get over it.

Been listening to RMS, I see.....

[DesScorp]

Teaching kids to share doesn't mean teaching them to share EVERYTHING.

And what's with the Bully thing? Bullies beat up other kids, usually for the feeling of power it gives them. I can never recall a kid being labled a bully because of all things, he wouldn't share his juicebox. That kid is saying "Fuck you, YOU share YOUR juicebox. This one's mine". Sorry, but there's nothing wrong with that. Little Timmy says keep me out of your P2P argument. I'll keep my juicebox AND download shit from Kazaa in 10 years.