Looks like the new Industry mouthpeice in congress has come out of hiding at last.
http://news.com.com/Congress+to+legislate+file+swapping/2100-1027_3-5884824.html?tag=nefd.topA California senator has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down.
Intellectual property protection "can't function in a country where the high-tech services become such that you can't protect copyright," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The session centered on the landmark Supreme Court decision on MGM v. Grokster, which ruled that file-sharing services can be liable for their users' infringing behavior.
Pointing to what she called a "rise in peer to peers" since the Grokster decision, Feinstein said current law is not effective enough to deter illegal file swapping and the government must enact stronger enforcement measures. "If we don't stop it," she said, "it's going to destroy these intellectual property industries."
I suppose we should say then following this line of reasoning that we should get rid of senators too ... :twisted:
This looks like another veneer-thin way of blaming P2P users for poor management and expansive greed on behalf of the organisations that no doubt contribute to the same senators pockets.
