FTC P2P Deadline For Public Comments

octalgirl writes "The FTC hosted 'Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Technology: Consumer Protection and Competition Issues' workshop is in December, but public comments are due by tomorrow (Nov 15th). If you have something to say about the how P2P file sharing is used today or ways it might be used in the future, get your 2 cents in now. You know the RIAA/MPAA certainly will. Guidelines for submitting are in the Federal Register Notice"

Comments

Federal Register Notice seems a bit biased

[Odocoileus]

Some of the things in the notice strike me as odd. For example items four, five, six, and seven on page seven: Does P2P make people install spyware, adware, viruses,or cause system slowdown?!? For the latter, how the hell does the software efficiency become a factor in deciding if it should be legal or not? As for the other three, get real, e-mail and all the stupid little things people install like weather monitors from their local TV stations and such is what comes to my mind first. Should we outlaw them as well? Seems to me like these questions are setting P2P up for failure. There is nothing unique to P2P when it comes to viruses and such, so why is it an issue?

Re:Late again

[octalgirl]

I agree. I searched high and low on slashdot and was surprised that it wasn't already here. That's why I posted what I could, even though I knew it was late. I found out from an not-often-looked at tech list that I'm on. Maybe the FTC didn't advertise this one properly? Or maybe (conspiracy theory) the usual **AA helped keep it quiet? It seems wired or some other tech mag would have had notice.