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File Sharing — Harmful to Children and a Threat to National Security

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the root-of-all-evil dept.

jkrobin writes to mention that a recent report from the US Patent office calls peer-to-peer file sharing harmful to children and a threat to national security. "Interestingly, the report makes numerous references to RIAA and MPAA legal actions against file actions, as well as cites a 2005 Department of Homeland Security report that government workers had installed file-sharing programs that accessed classified information without their knowledge."

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  1. good thing it's 80 pages by EllynGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    So we have a GOOD reason, for once, to comment without reading the article.

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  2. They're going for the high score! by Rycross · · Score: 5, Funny

    So they busted out the old terrorist chesnut and "Think of the children?" All they needed was to add something about immorality (implying Christian morality), and they would have had a perfect score.

  3. Not only that..... by Stanislav_J · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also may cause dizziness, insomnia, psoraisis, and the Creeping Crimean Crud.

    The cause of the fall of the Roman Empire? File sharing.

    JFK's assassins? File sharers.

    Besides, file sharing isn't mentioned in the Bible, so it must be forbidden by God.

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    1. Re:Not only that..... by Haeleth · · Score: 5, Funny

      Besides, file sharing isn't mentioned in the Bible, so it must be forbidden by God.
      Well, there's all that stuff about "render unto seeders"... :P

      (And the Feeding of the N-thousand, of course; if Jesus is going to go round making thousands of unauthorized copies of someone else's bread, he can hardly send you to hell for sharing a few tracks, now, can he?)
  4. Chicken Little by macdaddy357 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
    Oh, and while we're at it, Wolf! Woooooooooooooolf!

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  5. priceless by cyberbob2351 · · Score: 5, Funny
    • Windows XP SP2 - $83
    • Mac Tiger OSX - $129
    • Half life 2 - $29.99
    • 20Gb of music - ~$2000
    • Getting all of the above with p2p - Free
    • Murdering children and bringing to a halt the fabric of modern society - Priceless
    • ?????
    • Profit!
    For this and everything else, there's Bittorrent
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  6. Re:Paper -- also Harmful to Children etc. by cyberbob2351 · · Score: 5, Funny
    But we cannot get rid of paper, for paper beats rock, and rocks are the BIGGEST concern.

    We need to abandon earth and become a space-faring civilization - otherwise our children's children will be plagued by potential weapons (rocks) to use against one another.

    I call for a disbanding of the NRA (The national rock association)

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  7. When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading COMMUNISM by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.

    The "When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading COMMUNISM!" poster dates back to 2000; it only took us seven years to go from wacky parody to grim reality.

  8. Re:Hmm by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of when my brother got busted with pot. He lost his car and about $3k in fines and court costs. My parents blamed pot. Although pot didn't do that to him the government did. Pot only ever got us high.

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  9. Re:Stop the INSANITY! by omeomi · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's it! We can't wait any longer! We have to declare a WAR ON FILE SHARING. I mean, it's worked for everything else, right?

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