DOJ Wants New Antipiracy Powers

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
The U.S. Justice Department recommended a sweeping transformation of the nation's intellectual property laws, saying peer-to-peer piracy is a "widespread" problem that can be addressed only through more spending, more FBI agents and more power for prosecutors.
In an extensive report released Tuesday, senior department officials endorsed a pair of controversial copyright bills strongly favored by the entertainment industry that would criminalize "passive sharing" on file-swapping networks and permit lawsuits against companies that sell products that "induce" copyright infringement. "The department is prepared to build the strongest, most aggressive legal assault against intellectual property crime in our nation's history," Attorney General John Ashcroft, who created the task force in March, said at a press conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon.
Source: c|net

Comments

  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited October 2004
    So ... what're they gonna do? They can't kill IRC. And if they, millions of geeks the world over will roar in fury. They can't even put a script filter in, or a transfer filter. No matter how hard you foolproof something, there'll always be a better fool.

    They can't win this war. Not without destroying half of our freedoms that make us Americans. Damnit! I never used to buy CDs. I never will. Taking away my P-2-P software WON'T change that, ffs. Lol, sorry about using every emphasis known to man, but it needed it. These people piss me off.
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