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XanTium

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« on: April 20, 2005, 03:17:00 PM »
From news.com
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The bill, approved by Congress on Tuesday, is written so broadly it could make a federal felon of anyone who has even one copy of a film, software program or music file in a shared folder and should have known the copyrighted work had not been commercially released. Stiff fines of up to $250,000 can also be levied. Penalties would apply regardless of whether any downloading took place.
If signed into law, as expected, the bill would significantly lower the bar for online copyright prosecutions. Current law sanctions criminal penalties of up to three years in prison for "the reproduction or distribution of 10 or more copies or phonorecords of one or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of $2,500 or more."
Invoking a procedure used for noncontroversial legislation, the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the measure, called the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act. Because the bill already has cleared the Senate, it now goes to President Bush for his signature.

Update: File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a prerelease movie/software on the Internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, under a bill that's slated to become the most dramatic expansion of online piracy penalties in years.


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Tobb555

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2005, 03:21:00 PM »
is this kinda like the war on drugs and the war on terrisum. Only this is the War on P2P.
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gcskate27

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2005, 03:27:00 PM »
was that a question? shows how influential the 'entertainment' business is on politics... rolleyes.gif
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stevey5036

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2005, 03:27:00 PM »
just another thing to try and scare the whole p2p community...
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gcskate27

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2005, 03:38:00 PM »
p2p kinda sucks anyway... its only good for the somewhat hard to find things... and small files such as audio...

I WANNA ROCK!
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Tobb555

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2005, 03:44:00 PM »
ROCK IT LIKE A HURRICANE
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xenonmodz

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2005, 03:48:00 PM »
This is more suited toward everyone, but like drugs it invokes fear to let the little fish go free to get the big one.
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buckwilliamsca

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2005, 03:58:00 PM »
go newsgroups!

vive la Canada!
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themadman123

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2005, 04:23:00 PM »
Yeah, its really sad who much America has its priorites screwed up...Ok we can either use the man force to take out REAL criminals that hurt REAL people everyday, or we can just go ahead and use all these resources to make everyday people SEEM like criminals so that Big Corperate Companies make more money......I'm proud to be an american...... mad.gif
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thegame_evolution

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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2005, 04:26:00 PM »
so does this mean that $1 trillion will be pumped back in the US......in some form???? like has been thrown at USA 2????
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gcskate27

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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2005, 04:28:00 PM »
dont be so naive, we dont work on our problems... we work onn creating new ones...  rolleyes.gif
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« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2005, 04:38:00 PM »
QUOTE(themadman123 @ Apr 20 2005, 06:29 PM)
Yeah, its really sad who much America has its priorites screwed up...Ok we can either use the man force to take out REAL criminals that hurt REAL people everyday, or we can just go ahead and use all these resources to make everyday people SEEM like criminals so that Big Corperate Companies make more money......I'm proud to be an american...... mad.gif
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« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2005, 03:53:00 PM »
QUOTE(ruli00 @ Apr 20 2005, 01:44 PM)
Well Put. Like those big companies don't have enough money anyway.

$18.99 for a CD. :blink:
Lower the damn CD Prices
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Exactly I went to Borders the other day to look at CD's, it was $15 for a AC-DC cd that had only 8 songs. WTF
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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2005, 03:57:00 PM »
QUOTE(Severd @ Apr 20 2005, 10:29 PM)
'vive la Canada!'

I don't know what your point was, but P2P(in whole) is illegal in canada.
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I dont see anyone being fined here...

Worse are the 2 tracks Christina Bitchelera cds for 18$

This post has been edited by Aerok: Apr 20 2005, 10:58 PM
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(usa) Congress Declares War On P2p And File Leaker
« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2005, 04:04:00 PM »
I'm glad I dont go to the movies any more and dont buy music.. they wont get a single cent from me. I wish more people would do the same. Find something better to do, like playing videogames.
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