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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. post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post

  2. fucking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lovely.

  3. Going to jail for file swapping? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bring out the Hitler references, they are not offtopic this time.

  4. What about our rights? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From this page:

    Most people are familiar with the current Dallas and Houston Tollway Systems. To illustrate one problem with the Austin Plan, compare Toll Road Miles per million people: Houston has 17, the city of Dallas has 13, and Austin will have more than 113! If you look at the Dallas and Houston maps, you'll notice those cities, (as other cities with toll roads throughout the United States) have a simple loop or E/W and N/S tollways as additional "new" road options. The toll plans we all know in the past are built with investor dollars, and they complement the existing highways. The toll plans we all know in the past are built with investor dollars, are new roads, took years to carefully plan and they complement the existing highways. The Austin toll plan is built with our tax dollars and the toll roads become our existing highways. The Austin plan was rushed and approved within 3 months. If this doesn't look like a boondoggle, what does?

    The Austin Toll Plan - Download Larger Map:
    Shifts allmost every local Highway to Toll Roads.
    Uses Billions of our tax dollars to finance the Toll Roads. In the past Toll Roads were built with 80% bonds...these toll roads are built with 80% of our tax dollars.
    Seizes over $100 Million of our tax financed roads/projects in Austin and converts them to Toll Roads. See .pdf
    It's not a transportation solution, it's a "Revenue Generator", a Boondoggle for special interests.

  5. 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.

  6. Re:Next time you speed can we sue and jail you? by DIAMANTUL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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