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I've heard the moronic bill or other that's intended to outlaw all filesharing peer to peer is about to pass. Does anyone know more than that?

Stormbringer wrote:I've heard the moronic bill or other that's intended to outlaw all filesharing peer to peer is about to pass. Does anyone know more than that?

I'vr heard nothing about it
Not to mention the fact its impossible to enforce unless you intend to invade China and force it to turn off its peer to peer servers
Or India, Or Germany, Or South Africa....

Mr Bean wrote:

Stormbringer wrote:I've heard the moronic bill or other that's intended to outlaw all filesharing peer to peer is about to pass. Does anyone know more than that?

I'vr heard nothing about it

Supposed to be passing. I've seen some discussion of it here before now but nothing on it passing.

Mr Bean wrote:Not to mention the fact its impossible to enforce unless you intend to invade China and force it to turn off its peer to peer servers
Or India, Or Germany, Or South Africa....

Of course it's not. But that doesn't mean they won't sue a lot of people trying.

I believe it was started by that idiot from Utah... Orrin Hatch or something? No way it will pass. That's like banning picklocks because they can be used for criminal purposes.

Exonerate wrote:I believe it was started by that idiot from Utah... Orrin Hatch or something? No way it will pass. That's like banning picklocks because they can be used for criminal purposes.

Hatch yes. And it's supposed to be passing and set to pass. But unfortunately it's being shoved through with remarkable stealth so I can't find much.

BitTorrent is the new thing, anyway. They're behind the times.

Woud the courts strike it down if it does get passed?

last I recall anything about a P2P-banning bill of some sort it was shot down, the reason was basically that such a program can't be directly responsible for those who use it for illegal purposes. Or something to that extent. I think it occurred about a month or two ago.

Joe wrote:BitTorrent is the new thing, anyway. They're behind the times.

Of course they're behind the times. The people behind this legislation (RIAA, MPAA, and their hired goons) are total dinosaurs as far as the information revolution goes. Look at the facts: they didn't update their business models when they should have, and when that failure came back to fuck them in the ass, their response wasn't to try and cope with or exploit the new business paradigm, it was to petulantly (and futily) attempt to roll back the clock to the pre-internet days. These aren't evil geniuses, they're a bunch of empty suits with deep pockets. Instead of fixing the core problem, they're throwing money at their congressional lapdogs.

This legislation won't change anything.

According to Reuters, the INDUCE act has been locked up in committee. Another attempt to push the bill further will be made this week.