Piracy Deterrence and Education Act Introduced 508
Bootsy Collins writes "Last Thursday in the U.S. Congress,
H.R. 2517
was quietly introduced and referred to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill, authored by Lamar Smith (R-TX) and co-sponsored by Howard Berman (D-CA),
directs the FBI
to develop methods of deterring copyright violation through use of peer-to-peer networks, including efforts to facilitate sharing information about suspected violators amongst law enforcement agencies. It also directs the Justice Department to develop programs to educate the American public on why copyright violation is bad. Berman, you may remember, introduce a bill last year that would give the RIAA and MPAA wide latitude to
crack suspected violators' computers.
" Update: 06/23 17:03 GMT by S : We also covered a variant of this story on Saturday.
Education! (Score:5, Funny)
Piracy's bad......mmmmkay?
Damn.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Action (Score:5, Funny)
God forbid the FBI go after dangerous criminals ... I feel much safer with pot smokers and warez kiddies behind bars.
But don't you realize that File Sharing is a gateway crime? It leads to fraud, prostitution, murder, and massive drug dealing. For the love of god Think of the children!
they should use P2P (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Education! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Uhm...excuse me.... (Score:5, Funny)
Is this a trick question?
Not such an issue for me (Score:5, Funny)
I did, however, write with regularity to my conservative N.C. representatives when I lived there. I figured every minute some monkey spent reading a letter from a flaming liberal commie asshole like me was one less minute they could be holding prayer meetings or what have you.
I'm a little confused (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Action (Score:5, Funny)
I see filesharing as more of a proxy crime myself...
British proposal to prevent piracy (Score:5, Funny)
According to this article today's Guardian [guardian.co.uk], pirates killed or injured 145 people at sea in the first three months of this year. There are calls for the Royal Navy to station warships in the affected areas, to protect trade routes.
So you see, piracy is an ongoing and deadly threat... oh wait... *reads thread again*... Somebody seems to have started using the word "piracy" to mean "copyright violation". What an odd thing to do.
Re:Action (Score:3, Funny)
I can see it now.....
"If you use P2P, you're supporting Terrorism!"
sharing info about violaters (Score:2, Funny)
hmmmmm, i wonder how they could get all that information out to so many agencies quickly and effeciently. is there some kind of way to share files between a large group of users that can balance the bandwidth load between all the users???
Re:Action (Score:5, Funny)
It starts out with this 10 year old-ish boy walking out of a convenience store with a candy bar, and the shop owner runs out and accuses him of shoplifting it.
The scene then jumps to a cops dropping the kid off at his parents house.
The scene jumps again to inside the house, the kid is sitting on the couch with his father next to him. The father asks, "Did your friends put you up to it?" The kid shakes his head. "Then where did you learn to steal?" The kid looks up at his father with big deer in front of headlights eyes and says, "But Dad, you steal satellite signals!"
It then cuts to a white screen with the words "theft is theft" written on it in large black courier font with the sound of sirens and police radio in the background.
The funny thing is that the commercial makes me want to "steal satellite signals" just so I know my money wouldn't be going to fund such dreck.
So, apparently the progression is: P2P leads to Warez. Warez leads to Satellite Hacking. Satellite Hacking leads to Shoplifting, and so on and so on.
So remember, kids! Every time you download a song off the Internet, you kill a baby panda!
My dollars at work.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Action (Score:3, Funny)
And every time you download stolen copyrighted porn material off Kazaa and masterbate to it, a ninja kills a kitten! So in theory, Kazaa kills kittens. This is why the FBI and government want to shut down P2P networks, because after all who wants to kill a cute little kitten?