[IP] What's next?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Date: September 29, 2005 8:10:55 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] What's next?
Reply-To: dewayne@warpspeed.com


[Note:  This item comes from reader Tom Williams.  DLH]


> From: Tom Williams <Tom@AirNetworking.com>
> Date: September 29, 2005 11:44:16 AM PDT
> To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
> Subject: What's next?
>
>
> A bit of a shock opening sentence, from Future Brief
>
> A 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.
>
> (Learn more at News.com.)
> <http://beta.news.com.com/Congress+to+legislate+file+swapping/ 
> 2100-1027_3-5884824.html?tag=nefd.lede>

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