http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2002/...orn/index.html
Quote:
Starting next month, Internet service providers with customers in Pennsylvania will be legally responsible for blocking access to child pornography.
The law, with maximum penalties including prison time for repeat offenders, is believed to be the first of its kind.
But by putting the onus on the state attorney general's office to notify ISPs of what should be blocked, the law is expected to have limited success.
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I realize this isn't P2P related in a technical sense; but i think it hits a bone in other ways.
if we want to do what we do (the free and unrestricted transfer of files); then child porn is an easy and obvious moral, ethical, and political issue of the file trading community.
any setup that is truly decentralized (gnutella; freenet) gets slagged as "kiddie porn central." but any centralized network can get shut down by laws protecting copyright. i know that people wanting to download the latest album or software does not want to be associated with child porn. but politically; isn't this the way it's going to end up?