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New California Law Bans Anonymous Media File Sharing

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-helpful dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like California will soon be requiring emails to share files. The story from SF Gate has a few details as Ahnold goes on his signing spree in Sacramento. 'Aiding the industry that helped him gain worldwide fame, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Tuesday aimed at discouraging online piracy by requiring anyone disseminating movies or music on the Internet to disclose their e-mail address.' Also he signed a bill to limit the sale of video games."

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  1. TBH most of this sounds reasonable by Bender_ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I cant help it, but most of the bills he signed seemed reasonable and the ones he vetoed were indeed silly. Biased press?

    Having to provide an email adress to contact your when you provide a service on the net (that is offering binary files) is also reasonable. In fact it is already a law in several european countries.

  2. Re:What's with these laws? by hackstraw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Precisely. Stacking charges. This allows the prosecutor's to have 12 charges against you intsead of one. They can then plea bargain down to just one or two charges if you plead guilty. This means prosecutors get their 90%+ conviction records they want if they want to become DA or something, and a lot of innocent people go to jail because they take the plea bargain rather than go through a costly trial at the risk of even longer jail time.

    Ah, so its the DAs that make laws now, I knew that the legislative, executive, and judicial branches were diminishing, this is the 1st case of hard evidence for it. Gotcha! /sarcasm

    Oh, and BTW, everyone in jail/prison is innocent. Don't believe me, take a poll.