Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers 869
thejoelpatrol writes "The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by everybody's favorite senator, Orrin Hatch, is moving to outlaw P2P entirely by making it illegal to produce such applications. Hatch says such firms 'think that they can legally profit by inducing children to steal. Some think they can legally lure children into breaking the law with false promises of "free music."' So, when was the last time that Kazaa told kids to steal music? Shouldn't the parents be the ones looking out for their kids? The RIAA is (surprise!) in favor of this, while P2P groups are (surprise!) opposed."
The Children (Score:4, Funny)
Why not outlaw client-server apps too? (Score:5, Funny)
ARGH!
Oh, the children... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Madness (Score:2, Funny)
Hey - it worked for viruses and drugs...
Skip the Middle Man (Score:5, Funny)
Clichéd, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:As with Guns. (Score:2, Funny)
If the statistics tells us anything it's that: People don't kill people Americans kill people.
New bill (Score:1, Funny)
Actually scratch that, how about one that prevents him from proposing any bills whatsoever? The guy certainly seems to need a cooling off period.
Re:I'm confused (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but what good will P2P do you when the King of England starts pushing you around? Well? That's what I thought.
-m
Taylor made arguments (Score:5, Funny)
Kazaa doesn't steal music, people do...
You can take my limewire from my cold dead hands...
Not to mention awesome statistics like... More music gets stolen every day by bootlegging operations than by p2p users.
Fun Stuff!
What about the candy manufacturers? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Foreign jurisdictions (Score:4, Funny)
I bet RIAA would be in favor of that as well
Re:Next Year... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Re :Foreign jurisdictions (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, they are useful for maiming as well (Score:2, Funny)
High calibre handguns are also useful for shooting animals. A
Suffice it to say, one shot to a limb of a human and it is gone.
Oh. Nice. (Score:3, Funny)
I'm confused... (Score:3, Funny)
Kjella
In related news... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next Year... (Score:0, Funny)
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Re:Next Year... (Score:5, Funny)
And with the Internet routing around it (perhaps through Belgium?), it can be no more effective than the Maginot Line.
I'll have some "freedom fries" with that, please... ;-)
Re:Foreign jurisdictions (Score:3, Funny)
And a paid lobbyist for the RIAA and the MPAA.
This just in ... (Score:3, Funny)
In another not so surprising argument : the copy command (Ctrl-c) and the equally insidious Paste (Ctrl-v) command illegally lure children into breaking the law. The Senate Judiciary Committee has also made a move to ban these commands for all non Gov't purposes.
Re:Foreign jurisdictions (Score:3, Funny)
You mean he'd be a corporate manager?
Re:Foreign jurisdictions (Score:3, Funny)
= Intellectual people.
I bet RIAA would be in favor of that as well
Heh, the RIAA is like a crossbreed between Mao Tse Dong and Gestapo.
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Nicht P2P?
Ooh, nice precedent! (Score:2, Funny)
Imagine what you could say...
Digital cameras have a "portrait" mode, and they can be used to take pictures of naked kids, so are digital camera manufacturers inducing people into making kiddie porn? Yes! We *must* ban these evil devices!
My stereo has a dual tape deck with a fast-dubbing feature, so is it encouraging me to copy tapes? Yes! We have to ban *these* too!
...and so on. GET A CLUE: BAN THE ACTION (PIRATING/STEALING/SHARING/LIBERATING MUSIC), NOT THE METHOD!
Look at murder: Only items with a purpose completely dedicated to hurting people (guns, etc...) are regulated. I can kill someone with a pair of scissors, but they're not banned because you can kill people with them! <sarcasm>OH, won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!</sarcasm>
But I digress...
Moms Too Like Digital Content... (Score:1, Funny)
Shortly before Napster got the axe I showed my mom how to use it. I explained to her both sides of the digital music argument and let her do as she wished. She downloaded more music in week then I could have ever imagined. For the first time in her life she thought the computer was actually a useful invention.
While I was at my parents house for the 4th she asked me if I could put that "music program" on my dads computer. So I explained what happened with Napster, and how there was a risk of being sued by the RIAA for downloading music now. I told her that it just wasn't a good idea any more, and she says "Damnit, I really wish it wasn't illegal".
AC
To paraphrase Chris Rock... (Score:1, Funny)
(Very sad that in this world I feel the need to post anonymously, lest an FBI battering ram find it's way through my front door ten minutes from now)
Solution: Leave the USA (Score:2, Funny)
And if anyone from the government cares to sue me, start by e-mailing me at dmarescajr@gmail.com, my name is Daniel Maresca Jr. COME GET SOME!
Uploads are the problem (Score:2, Funny)
On the serious side... this is absurd. There is NO way to share a quicktime trailer over the internet that I can't grab to my own harddrive. No way to make a picture over the internet that I can't grab. If I can "see" it, I can have it, no, I DO have it. The internet is just one giant P2P network - data flows in both ways. Sometimes it's not the data you want but you don't destroy the network to stop the data from flowing.
this is absurd
Re:Foreign jurisdictions (Score:2, Funny)
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Slate Magazine: Sen. Orrin Hatch [msn.com]
Re: Even telling him... (Score:2, Funny)