Justice Dept. Raids Homes of File Swappers

Cryofan writes "Reuters is reporting that the Justice Dept. has raided the homes of 5 people in several states for trading music on p2p networks. The traders were, however, not arrested. 'P2P does not stand for 'permission to pilfer,' Ashcroft said. The Reuters story says that the 5 'were people operating hubs in a file-sharing network based on Direct Connect software,' and who had provided between 'one and 100 gigabytes of material to trade, or up to 250,000 songs.' 'They are clearly directing and operating an enterprise which countenances illegal activity and makes as a condition of membership the willingness to make available material to be stolen,' said Ashcroft."

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Re:Doesn't the DOJ have better things to do...

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Wow, what a dark and insightful post. You must be very popular at the gothic coffehouse with ideas like that.

Riddle me this: what other political system is there that is as stable, prosperous and as helpful to the general populace as the democratic republic? And second, why aren't we using it?