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DOJ to Pursue P2P Swappers?
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posted by md
on Monday January 27, @04:39PM
from the dept.
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Declan McCullagh's latest write-up suggests that the Department of Justice, pushed by the RIAA, MPAA, and congressional allies of those groups, may begin prosecuting individuals who trade music files over peer-to-peer networks. Such activity, even if completely noncommercial, was made illegal under the Net Electronic Theft (NET) Act of 1997. However, with hundreds of thousands of participants in P2P networks that seem to spring up as quickly as they are shut down by court orders, it remains to be seen whether such prosecutions will have the deterrent effect that the music/movie industry hopes they will. Further, one must wonder whether the Department of Justice is willing to devote resources to sending teenagers and college students to jail while the Bush administration is preoccupied with its anti-terror agenda.
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