P2P and copyright bills pass House Panel

GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us that HR.4077, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, has been approved by the United States House Judiciary Committee. If you want to continue sharing files go ahead, but keep the shared folder down below 1000 tracks. Otherwise, you may be wearing soap on a rope for a few years.

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HR.4077, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, has been approved by the United States" House Judiciary Committee.The bill specifies up to five years" jail for anyone making over a thousand copyrighted works available for download. That"s if the infringer is profiting from the action: ordinary P2P users would face up to three years simply for making their collections available.

This would be a little easier to swallow if it weren't for the approval of the measure from the chairman of the House Committee, Rep James Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis). He was paid US$ 18,000 by the RIAA to visit Taiwan and Thailand in January 2003, a breach of the House ethics rules, say critics. Sensenbrenner said it was a "fact-finding mission".

Source: C|Net

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