[TriLUG] (Slightly OT)New Bill in Congress would make file-swapping a felony

[American Law Abider]

Oh, my gosh and can you believe that it is also a bill that if you 
murder someone you can go to jail as well!!  Its called the law, and if 
people would abide by it there would not be these bills passing around 
in congress.  From what I read in the bill the posting *copyrighted* 
material is against the law.  So based on your rationale, it would be 
legal to "share" material, so I am going to borrow some cars from CarMax 
and leave them on the side of the road for everyone to use at.  hmmm, 
that sounds like the same theory of file sharing.  Maybe, I am reading 
the wrong bill, but copyright is the law and if you break that law by 
posting it on the internet for everyone to use you should be punished.
Regards,
American Law Abider

prhodes at vdsinc.com wrote:

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>There's a new bill floating around in Congress, which would make uploading
>even ONE
>file over a P2P network a federal felony... get this... punishable by FIVE
>YEARS in
>jail, and a $250,000 dollar fine.
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>Holy draconian laws, batman!
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>More details and discussion can be found at /.
>http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/1250203
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>Anybody who thinks this is stupid, please contact your congressional
>representatives, and register your opposition to this nonsense....
>
>
>Phillip Rhodes
>Application Designer
>Voice Data Solutions
>919-571-4300 x225
>prhodes at vdsinc.com
>
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