Looks like Hollywood wants to be able to ping flood you if you share files…
“…On Monday, a lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said to expect new bills soon to assail illicit peer-to-peer file trading and curtail the piracy of digital TV broadcasts. Fritz Attaway, the MPAA’s senior vice president for government relations, told an intellectual property conference that his group would, with the help of its powerful congressional allies, attempt a three-pronged approach this fall.
“…Because Congress only has about five work weeks left before it is scheduled to adjourn for the year, the movie studios’ effort has limited hopes of success until 2003. But it will highlight Hollywood’s legal attempts to permit the intentional disruption of peer-to-peer networks and limit the unauthorized copying and conversion of digital TV signals … Last month, Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., said he was writing a bill that would allow aggrieved content owners to launch technological attacks against file-swapping networks where their wares are traded…”
Click here to read the full story at CNET’s News.com.
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