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Anti-P2P Law Looms over the Horizon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the party's-over dept.

Adrian Lopez writes "MIT's Technology Review has a piece by Eric Hellweg about pending legislation known as the Intellectual Property Protection Act. According to Hellweg, IPPA could make it illegal to skip past commercials and could 'criminalize the currently legal act of using the sharing capacity of iTunes, Apple's popular music software program.' More information on IPPA is available at the Public Knowledge website."

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  1. Re:lots of other victimless crimes to worry about. by CosmeticLobotamy · · Score: 5, Funny

    bypassing the networks sponsors is not QUITE a victimless crime, as the networks are losing money by it.

    And damn you if you don't read every ad in your newspaper. If people did, the paper would get paid more for them. You selfish bastards.

  2. Re:I remember reading somewhere... by midknight32 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The funny thing is that Edison did get involved in a huge commercial/patent war over the delivery of electricity with Westinghouse, who was using Tesla's AC power delivery system. one side effect was the invention of the electric chair, when Edison tried to "prove" that AC was deadlier.