Hi Mr. Newsman!
Quote:
Originally posted by walktalker
DOJ to swappers: Law's not on your side 
The U.S. Department of Justice is prepared to begin prosecuting peer-to-peer pirates, a top government official said on Tuesday. John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, said Americans should realize that swapping illicit copies of music and movies is a criminal offense that can result in lengthy prison terms. "A lot of people think these activities are legal, and they think they ought to be legal," Malcolm told an audience at the Progress and Freedom Foundation’s annual technology and politics summit. Malcolm said the Internet has become "the world's largest copy machine" and that criminal prosecutions of copyright offenders are now necessary to preserve the viability of America's content industries. "There does have to be some kind of a public message that stealing is stealing is stealing," said Malcolm, who oversees the arm of the Justice Department that prosecutes copyright and computer crime cases.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954591.html?tag=fd_top
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To make things easier, they could start by suing all Americans who have copyrighted MP3s in the shared folders of their instant messengers. If there will still be room in the jails after this and capacity in the courtrooms, I'm sure they can spot a few Gnutella users too...
- tg
