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File Trading Law Would Include 'Willing' Traders

Posted by timothy on from the coalition-of-the-willing dept.

mgessner writes "From InfoWorld comes a story on the U.S. House's approval of a new, tough law against trading files online. 'The bill expands the definition of file traders eligible for criminal penalties from individuals who 'willingly' distribute copyright files to those who 'knowingly' do so, an escalation that could result in jail time for file swappers.'" (The bill has yet to go through the Senate.)

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  1. Everybody is guilty... by Yaa+101 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    More and more the general public is hyjacked into gross mass murders.

    For instance Ruanda and Congo, these millions of people died so that you can use your mobile phone like all the millions with you.

    The CEO's of these companies have made you all accesory to mass murder for the Coltan (extremely precious metal used for tantalium capacitors in cell and gsm phones.

    Whereever they can they try to drag the common public into these acts so that they can get away with it, while less fortunate can get even get a death penalty for much less.

    More and more laws are writen in a way that exposes the general public as criminals so that a select group of people can rape our law system for their petty wellbeing.

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