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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: U.S. politicians want P2P pirates placed in federal prison




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Date sent:      	Fri, 09 Aug 2002 20:54:43 -0400
To:             	politech@politechbot.com
From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:        	FC: U.S. politicians want P2P pirates placed in federal prison
Send reply to:  	declan@well.com

Duncan Frissell (a lawyer and Politech irregular) and I wrote last
summer about how Napster users were violating federal criminal laws.
This should not be surprising. See:

"Duncan Frissell on why Napster users are federal felons"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02305.html

-Declan

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From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms@computerbytesman.com>
To: <declan@well.com>
Subject: Forget the war on terrorism, let's go after kids on Kazaa
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:32:47 -0400

Ashcroft Asked to Target Online Song Swappers
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=2&cid=581&u=/nm
/20020809/tc_nm/tech_copyright_dc_4

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers have asked Attorney General John
Ashcroft to go after Internet users who download unauthorized songs
and other copyrighted material, raising the possibility of jail time
for digital-music fans.

In a July 25 letter released late Thursday, some 19 lawmakers from
both sides of the aisle asked Ashcroft to prosecute "peer-to-peer"
networks like Kazaa and Morpheus and the users who swap digital songs,
video clips and other files without permission from artists or their
record labels.

The Justice Department should also devote more resources to policing
online copyrights, the lawmakers said in their letter.

...




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