P2P jail bill moves forward
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HR.4077, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, has been approved by the United States&#39; House Judiciary Committee. The bill specifies up to five years&#39; jail for anyone making over a thousand copyrighted works available for download.
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Although recording industry folks predict success for 'sanctioned' P2P services, no one is sure consumers will be willing to pay, or even if such a setup can be agreed upon. Michael Grebb reports from Washington.
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The arrival of software that lets you search for and record digital music off the airwaves could raise legal issues that will make the P2P skirmishes look quaint by comparison.
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Ashcroft takes federal enforcement action taken against criminal copyright piracy on peer-to-peer networks. Attorney General John Ashcroft, Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray, and US Attorney for
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Internet access may be cut for people who illegally download music and videos  under government proposals.
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The House of Representatives passes a bill that would sic the feds on people using peer-to-peer networks to swap songs or movies. Copyright infringers may face up to three years in prison.
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Reports of vulnerabilities found by some peer-to-peer file sharers prompt patch.
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Preliminary results of a study on peer-to-peer file sharing show that on the average, the technology still makes up anywhere between 50 and 90 percent of Internet traffic, with BitTorrent surging in popularity.
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The effort to crack down on illegal music downloads moves across the pond.
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'Power to the people. And us.' Just after Comcast copped to throttling P2P traffic, a new net neutrality bill appeared on Capitol Hill.â¦
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Controversial plan could force file swappers to face criminal charges.
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WASHINGTON -- With an eye on peer-to-peer networks, the US House Judiciary Committee approved legislation Wednesday criminalizing some acts of copyright infringement.
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In a move that takes aim at file-swapping networks, the US House of Representatives voted to boost penalties for online piracy and increase federal police powers against Net copyright infringement.
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U.S. Republican and Democratic  lawmakers on Wednesday launched an effort to help the 650,000  people released each year from the world's largest prison  system, to stay out of jail.
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Philadelphia officials have laid the  groundwork to provide wireless, high-speed Internet access  anywhere in the city, but their plan is threatened under a  state bill that could be signed into law on Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that could allow criminal charges to be brought against individuals who participate in file-swapping Web sites or networks.
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(InfoWorld) - A Seattle man faces as many as 29 years in prison after being charged with using the LimeWire and Soulseek p-to-p (peer-to-peer) networks to commit identity theft. Gregory Kopiloff was arrested Thursday on charges of mail fraud, accessing a protected computer without authorization, and two counts of aggravated identity theft, said Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington. This is the first case that Langlie's office is aware of that involves p-to-p identity-theft charges, she said. In court filings, federal prosecutors alleged that Kopiloff began the scam around March 2005, using the p-to-p networks to search for victims who had accidentally configured their software to share sensitive documents. Hard drives were searched for "federal income tax returns, student financial aid applications, and credit reports that had been stored electronically," court filings state. Using that information, Kopiloff would fill out online credit card applications, then buy products such as iPods or computer hard drives, which he then resold for cash, typically at about 50 cents on the dollar, federal prosecutors claim. Kopiloff was allegedly able to buy more than $73,000 worth of merchandise using online credit card accounts he'd set up using the identities of at least 83 victims. It's easy for unsophisticated users to accidentally share sensitive information via p-to-p networks, said Christopher Boyd, director of malware research with FaceTime Communications. "Some P2P programs have 'share folder' options and if you accidentally hit it, bam -- it's out there without you even knowing about it," he said in an instant-message interview. But luckily there's an easy fix for the problem. Boyd recommends that p-to-p users place all of their sensitive documents on a stand-alone drive, separate from the main PC. "It's about the best way to ensure you don't accidentally share your life story with the rest of the world via P2P," he said.