Congress To Legislate File Swapping?
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Anne Broache of CNET News.com writes:
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.
I think Feinstein is guilty of hyperbole here - last time I looked, Hollywood and the music industry weren’t in trouble…
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