Congress is after peer-to-peer filesharers, yet again. Even with, the Supreme Court’s decision on the popular file sharing network Grokster, Congress is back at it. In the Supreme Court case involving Grokster, they settled on the fact that P2P software developers could be held responsible for actions taken during the use of their software.
Senators are now requesting that the settlement reached should be written in to law.
Senator Ted Stevens claims that there is a large movement in the Senate to take immediate action to terminate illegal actions, and “save the record industry while they still can”.
Another Senator says that she believes there is an upside and a downside to P2P and filesharing, and believes that they should be able to come to a suitable agreement that makes both sides of the equation happy. However, she goes on to say, the P2P industry is horrible for showing pornography to children who enter search terms that are non-pornographic.
If Congress were to make any immediate decision about P2P there would be all sorts of effects from all different corners of life. From social to scientific, the effects would be massive.
The MPAA claims that there is no point in trying to get everyone together and ‘license’ the content to the file sharing networks, rather, “we should support the legitimate content distributors, and get the free riders out of our path.” says Fritz Attaway, vice president, MPAA.
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