[FYI] U.S. Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P
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Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P
By Xeni Jardin
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http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62830,00.html
04:00 PM Mar. 26, 2004 PT
Congress appears to be preparing assaults against peer-to-peer
technology on multiple fronts.
A draft bill obtained by Wired News, 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 also would
seek penalties of fines and prison time of up to ten years for file
sharing.
In addition, on Thursday, Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Patrick
Leahy (D-Vermont) introduced a bill that would allow the Justice
Department to pursue civil cases against file sharers, again making
it easier for law enforcement to punish people trading copyright
music over peer-to-peer networks. They dubbed the bill "Protecting
Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004," or
the Pirate Act.
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