Posted by stjames on February 26, 2003, at 14:23:19
In reply to Re: blocked for week « stjames, posted by Dr. Bob on February 26, 2003, at 7:48:15
http://news.com.com/2100-1028-986143.html
Congress targets P2P piracy on campus
By Declan McCullagh
February 26, 2003, 11:01 AM PTKey politicians chided universities on Wednesday for not doing enough
to limit peer-to-peer piracy, calling unauthorized copying a federal
crime that should be punished appropriately.Members of the House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees
copyright law said at a hearing that peer-to-peer piracy was a crime
under a 1997 federal law, but universities continued to treat
file-swapping as a minor infraction of campus disciplinary codes."If on your campus you had an assault and battery or a murder, you'd
go down to the district attorney's office and deal with it that way,"
said Rep. William Jenkins, R-Tenn.[...]
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