Senate bill bans P2P networks (News.com) [LWN.net]

Senate bill bans P2P networks (News.com)

Posted Jun 24, 2004 15:09 UTC (Thu) by darkcape (guest, #9022)
Parent article: Senate bill bans P2P networks (News.com)

If information is outlawed only outlaws (and the government) will have information.

sure P2P has been mostly illegal but what about other applications I can now get Fedora when its released instead of waiting 2 weeks for servers to become uncongested thanks to bittorrent.

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What about email?

Posted Jun 24, 2004 15:44 UTC (Thu) by freemars (subscriber, #4235) [Link]

What about email? It's a P2P network the way I run it -- my computer contacts yours directly, and it _could_ be used to send copyrighted attachments.

Oh The Horror.

Does this mean the authors of Sendmail and Postfix are next in line for jail terms?

What about email?

Posted Jun 24, 2004 15:58 UTC (Thu) by verzonnen (guest, #9406) [Link]

After they are jailed, American legislators should go after the ISP's and the manufactures of computers, since they are aiding the copying of files.

Anyway in jail the music is free ;)