Chris Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 Congress appears to be preparing assaults against peer-to-peer technology on multiple fronts. A draft bill recently circulated among members of the House judiciary committee would make it much easier for the Justice Department to pursue criminal prosecutions against file sharers by lowering the burden of proof. The bill, obtained Thursday by Wired News, also would seek penalties of fines and prison time of up to ten years for file sharing.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 Fight back now. Insist that your local MP sets up an interactive forum to discuss issues with his constituents. eDemocracy will prevent MP's and Senators from being knobbled by big business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 not just the US though ...is it The British Phonographic Industry is set to following the RIAA as they launch a new campaign threatening legal action against people who illegally use P2P or uploading music to the internet.Its the first move by an industry trade association outside the US.The BPI plan to send instant messages to peer-to-peer filesharing networks warning users that if they do not stop they may face legal action. click here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Once again, examples of weak minded politicos trying to introduce toothless legislation.In the constant striving of many countries of the modern world to introduce "globalisation", these wallies introduce these laws thinking they will have some real effect. They seem to ignore that two of the "w"s of www. stands for worldwide. This being so, attempts to control it from their comfy office in Washington or Whitehall will fail.Making something like this illegal can, in many cases, make it more attractive. This, coupled with the fact that there is a large proportion of the world not controlled by these foolish jobsworths means that their efforts are a complete waste of their time and our money.The recent anti-spam legislation illustrates this cloud cuckoo land approach. Has it made any difference to the spam you get? Has it fiddlesticks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 I honestly don't expect to loose much sleep over this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyLynn Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 This is just another way of showing recording companies greed. A majority of the time its not the artist making much money from a cd, their money is in touring. There have been plenty of artists in the top ten on the music charts, sell alot of albums and still be so broke they have to file bankruptcy. My first suggestion to the record companies should be make cds that have more than one good song on it. It is irritating to buy a cd and only one good song (usually the hit song)be on there and the rest aren't worth listening to. What happened to the good old days when you could buy something by an artist and almost if not the entire thing was great? File sharing amongst people will continue even if they have to have somewhat secret societies on the internet where they mail zip files of songs to each other. They can prosecute little old grannies and teenagers with no money and try to make examples of them, but their attempts are futile and only encourage some to find other ways to go about it. There are far more criminal acts going on in the world to concentrate on in my opinion. They are just wasting their time and money attempting to stop it.Possibly spending ten years in prison for downloading some songs? Can you find anything much more ridiculous? I can envision it now...One prisoner says to another... "what ya in for? "The other replies "robbing a bank, I got 3 years with time off for good behavior. What are you in here for?" The first one replies "I got ten years for downloading two songs and they weren't even that good" It's just ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 They are just wasting their time and money attempting to stop it.Their time and YOUR money . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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