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Travis Lewis X, The Emerald Dragon
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Date Posted: 00:12:48 07/26/02 Fri
As the subject says. This is a public service announcement.
How many people that frequent this board, use a P2P program, or frequently trade MP3's and the like, in some way or fashion? I need to hand a little wake up call.
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By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 23, 2002, 4:45 PM PT
update WASHINGTON--Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal that would authorize copyright holders to disable PCs used for illicit file trading.
A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political effort to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt peer-to-peer networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat to their bottom line.
Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C., the measure would permit copyright holders to perform nearly unchecked electronic hacking if they have a "reasonable basis" to believe that piracy is taking place. Berman and Coble plan to introduce the 10-page bill this week.
The legislation would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or otherwise impair a "publicly accessible peer-to-peer network."
Anyone whose computer was damaged in the process must receive the permission of the U.S. attorney general before filing a lawsuit, and a suit could be filed only if the actual monetary loss was more than $250.
According to the draft, the attorney general must be given complete details about the "specific technologies the copyright holder intends to use to impair" the normal operation of the peer-to-peer network. Those details would remain secret and would not be divulged to the public.
The draft bill doesn't specify what techniques, such as viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks, or domain name hijacking, would be permissible. It does say that a copyright-hacker should not delete files, but it limits the right of anyone subject to an intrusion to sue if files are accidentally erased.
Because Congress only has about five work weeks left before it is scheduled to adjourn for the year, the outlook for the draft bill is uncertain.
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Fuck the MPAA and RIAA. If this draft bill becomes law... well, this country should cease to exist. Not even the FBI can legally do this, yano...
The article is from www.cnet.com, C&Ped from www.subspace.com, a website about the game of the same name.
This angers me to no end... just HOW far will they go to stop piracy? Argh...
I'm out.
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