Anyone who sells, advertises or distributes peer-to-peer (P2P) software without taking “reasonable care” that the software won’t be used for an unlawful act would be slapped with a fine up to $2,500, a year in county jail or both under a bill filed in the California Senate last week. Although the measure, filed by Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Los Angeles, is aimed at punishing people illegally trafficking in music, movies and child porn on the Internet, critics of the legislation contend it goes far beyond its
originator’s purported intentions.
These people are idiots.. What are they going to have people do to take 'reasonable care'? Have everyone fill out a questionare to find out if they will use the program to steal, before letting them download? Add filters that make the program 500 times bigger, by storing hash keys or the names of every concievably illegal product? As for centralization... What the hell good does that do? Legitimate companies get screwed, illegal traders just go on as usual, with at the most, their now 'illegal' programs becoming marginally harder to find. These people need to get their heads out of their asses and understand the technology. - At one time we used the pass 'laws'. You know, those things that carefully described the precise behaviour we wanted people to stop. At least with minor exceptions like obsenity laws, etc. Now we have state and federal governments that if they decided they didn't like people chewing gum in public would pass a law simply stating, "From now on people are not allowed to chew." No qualifiers, specifics or even the basic logic possessed by a damn four year old required to pass it.
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California Bill Would Crack Down on P2P Developers
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. January 20, 2005 09:00 AMAnyone who sells, advertises or distributes peer-to-peer (P2P) software without taking “reasonable care” that the software won’t be used for an unlawful act would be slapped with a fine up to $2,500, a year in county jail or both under a bill filed in the California Senate last week. Although the measure, filed by Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Los Angeles, is aimed at punishing people illegally trafficking in music, movies and child porn on the Internet, critics of the legislation contend it goes far beyond its
originator’s purported intentions.
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At one time we used the pass 'laws'. You know, those things that carefully described the precise behaviour we wanted people to stop. At least with minor exceptions like obsenity laws, etc. Now we have state and federal governments that if they decided they didn't like people chewing gum in public would pass a law simply stating, "From now on people are not allowed to chew." No qualifiers, specifics or even the basic logic possessed by a damn four year old required to pass it.