House IP Leader Endorses P2P Blocking 178
Technical Writing Geek points out an Ars Technica report on comments from Representative Howard Coble (R-NC), who sits on the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. In a recent editorial, Coble attempts to discourage P2P file sharing among young people, and praises Ohio University for its ban on P2P applications last year. Coble also suggests that identity theft is a great danger from file sharing. Public Knowledge is running a similar analysis, which argues against the main points from the editorial.
Re:ID Theft? (Score:5, Funny)
"Think of the children" is the Congressional equivalent of the Jedi Mind Trick; "these are not the droids you're looking for." Upon further consideration, he may have substituted "Identity Theft" instead of "terrorists" since he's talking about the Interweb. I applaud his restraint in not using any analogy to tubes. This is progress.
Re:e-mail (Score:2, Funny)
Heck with it, let's just ban computers altogether! Are you with me?
Oh, wait...
You must be this smart to ride this ride (Score:4, Funny)
Really? Identity theft over P2P? Anyone who identity is so weak they could lose it by grabbing a torrent of Ubuntu probably has bigger problems than this congressdroid wants to address.
Re:just like guns (Score:2, Funny)
Re:just like guns (Score:0, Funny)
Re:just like guns (Score:0, Funny)
Re:ID Theft? (Score:2, Funny)