DOJ to prosecute file swappers

ZDNet News ^ | August 20, 2002 | Declan McCullagh

[Leroy S. Mort]

"Lengthy prison terms" eh? I got a feeling we may need a whole lot more jails real soon.

[WindMinstrel]

check out Freenet, the secure, anonymous, strongly-encrypted internet. It's free, it's peer-to-peer, and it works

[Dead Corpse]

Biden and Feinstein are FOR this? That gives me just one more reason to be against it.

[glc1173@aol.com]

Boycott Hollyweird until it quits trying to intimidate Real America!

[apillar]

I'll believe it when I see it...

I have a feeling this is just some propaganda shoveled out by the Justice Department to appease the recording industry.

Oh they may shut down a couple people running servers with 20,000 songs on them as an example. There is no way they would risk the political fallout of mass arrests of teenagers and college age kids. Remember we live in the society were the "children" can do no wrong.

[Revolting cat!]

I agree. Next, we must lobby the gubmint to crack down on public libraries which lend out books without paying royalties to the publishers; after that we can start raiding the illegal singing of Happy Birthday at birthday parties, and we can proceed to the kindergarten poem recitations.

[Wm Bach]

Hey, our DOJ can't jail the traitors at Loral, nor the Lynx enviro-criminals, nor look into the IRS audits against Republicans, nor the collectiing of FBI files by the previous administration, nor look into the current Saudi funding of terrorists, yet they can snap to attention for Hollywood, and crucify a reporter for being GIVEN, by a government insider, a small swath of frabric from a downed plane in order to test it.

Hey Aschcroft! Better get back to important things like covering up the boobs on the rest of those statues around D.C.

[Centurion2000]

ASPEN, Colo.--The U.S. Department of Justice is prepared to begin prosecuting peer-to-peer pirates, a top government official said on Tuesday.

They'd better be prepared for a gunfight on several occasions. It will come to that.

[Pearls Before Swine]

My kids won't be happy to hear this.

[wcbtinman]

The DOJ will probably pattern the new War on Music like the grossly incompetent War of Drugs.

God help us.

[Pearls Before Swine]

check out FREENET

The problem isn't interception while you are exchanging files; it is the no-knock search to check your computer for too many games and MP3s.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

More proof that our government has degenerated into nothing more than the enforcement arm of the media (Hollywood, RIAA, MPAA, etc.).

[E Rocc]

check out Freenet, the secure, anonymous, strongly-encrypted internet. It's free, it's peer-to-peer, and it works

Damn traitors. No Real American should have any problem with Our Government keeping an eye on everything we do. It's only to protect us, after all. [/Sarcasm]

-Eric

[eno_]

Tell the man, and his boss, what you think: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/contacts.html

I did.

[Goodlife]

Two things:

1) My tax money is spent to help the RIAA fight file swapping. Ergo, I am paying these record companies for rendering no service to me, indirectly, through taxes. I have no problem downloading songs now, because I paid them for something

2) In the 19th century, there was a burgeoning industry involved with shipping ice from the arctic to tropical regions, to preserve food. Refridgeration killed that whole industry. The ice shippers were not interested in marketing refridgeration, or evolving with it. They tried to quash it.

The same thing is happening here. The world has moved on. The record companies want to PASS LAWS so that they don't have to move on with the world.

All they need to do is cut the prices of CDs and allow file sharing. People would flock to have 'hard copy' or 'official copies' of songs they downloaded from the internet. But at $16-$20 a pop, who would bother?

But they don't want to change. They want to hold the world in statis to match their already successful business plan.

/rant

[Nuke'm Glowing]

I have no problem with this. As long as that is the primary focus of the DOJ. I mean, why pursue Ken Lay, hell, he only stole billions. Let's go after the kids, they can't afford mega lawyers.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

I have no problem with this. As long as that is the primary focus of the DOJ. I mean, why pursue Ken Lay, hell, he only stole billions. Let's go after the kids, they can't afford mega lawyers.

[hobbes1]

their Actual biggest Fear is that more established artists, will imtitate Jimmy Buffet, and eschew the record companies altogether. BY upping THEIR share of the profits less copies need to be sold....forcing a rapid decentralization of who controls production.IT also opens the door for more acts to be heard on a wider basis...

[hobbes1]

I thought it was to protect the Children....LOL