i forget how i was subscribed to SecurityProNews, but i got an email today containing this article: Feds Use the Force Against BitTorrent. i know the article name and metaphors used throughout are cheesy, but i believe what's important is that the government is again trying to suppress Teh People™ from coming together and, sharing!
for lack of time for words, i know file-sharing is illegal, but what's going on is not teh Goot™, especially when economic and corporate interest comes to mind.When "Star Wars Episode II: Revenge of the Sith" became available for download hours before the theatrical release, the Force departed from users of the increasingly popular BitTorrent technology. Federal agents have launched a Death Star styled offensive on file sharing website owners and users.
The campaign, kicked off yesterday with 10 search warrants and raids in eight states and the shutdown of Elitetorrents.org, is the first criminal enforcement action against BitTorrent propagators. The effort is put forth by a coalition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
may the Force be with you, and also with you. haha.
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bitTorrent and Grokster will be found indirectly liable within a month - at the very least, the holding of the latest p2p case will be vacated (i.e. erased) and the grokster case will be sent back for a trial. or that's the subject of my not-yet-finished paper.
the holding of sony betamax will be chipped away. there will be no bright-line safe haven for technology that is "capable of substantial non-infringing uses." [it's a standard that has been misapplied anyway, imho.]
it's a good thing if enforced properly.
the irritating thing is that copyright law is civil law not criminal law (well, basically at least), so the feds all getting up people's asses is just... i dunno... slightly vexing.
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