Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P

[Winnow]

If the draft becomes law, anyone sharing 2,500 or more pieces of content, such as songs or movies, could be fined or thrown in jail. In addition, anyone who distributes content that hasn't been released in wide distribution (for example, pre-release copies of an upcoming movie) also would face the penalties. Even a single file, determined by a judge to be worth more than $10,000, would land the file sharer in prison.

Hope this doesn't go through. It would suck to download a file titled "Heidi", find out it's a prerelease of Star Wars Episode 3, and be sent off to the slammer.

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,14 ... _tophead_1

[Xzion]

heh, as a form of protest, it would be fucking sweet if a whole buch of people made an initiative to download 2,499 songs

[Xouqoa]

It's not even downloading 2,500 - you can download 25,000 but you just can only SHARE 2,500 on a P2P network under that law.

[Zamtuk]

well, wouldnt it make more people use bit torrent? last I heard, bt was too mirrored for it to be properly traced. if so, then I am in the clear as that is all i use now anyways.