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[IP] What's next?



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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 29, 2005 8:10:55 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] What's next?
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[Note:  This item comes from reader Tom Williams.  DLH]



From: Tom Williams <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 29, 2005 11:44:16 AM PDT
To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: What's next?


A bit of a shock opening sentence, from Future Brief

A California senator has suggested that because file-sharing
networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut
down. Intellectual property protection "can't function in a
country where the high-tech services become such that you
can't protect copyright," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California
Democrat, said Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing.

The session centered on the landmark Supreme Court
decision on MGM v. Grokster, which ruled that file-sharing
services can be liable for their users' infringing behavior.
Pointing to what she called a 'rise in peer to peers' since
the Grokster decision, Feinstein said current law is not
effective enough to deter illegal file swapping and the
government must enact stronger enforcement measures.

(Learn more at News.com.)
<http://beta.news.com.com/Congress+to+legislate+file+swapping/ 2100-1027_3-5884824.html?tag=nefd.lede> 



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