From Cnet.com The U.S. Congress is targeting peer-to-peer networks again–and this time politicians aren’t fretting over music and software piracy.
A pair of government reports scheduled to be released at a hearing on Thursday warn that file-swapping networks are exploding with pornography–much of which is legal, and some of which is not.
Searching for words such as “preteen,” “underage” and “incest” on the Kazaa network resulted in a slew of images that qualify as child pornography, the General Accounting Office said in a 37-page report, one of two obtained by CNET News.com. The second report, prepared by staff from the House Government Reform Committee, concluded that current blocking technology has “no, or limited, ability to block access to pornography via file-sharing programs.”
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