[Infowarrior] - More on...Universities win Senate fight over anti-P2P amendment

[Richard Forno]

Funny how the entertainment industry (or the politicos they own) manages to
equate filesharing to anything if it means Congress will talk about it. I
wonder when they'll claim P2P leads to cancer, adult onset diabetes, and
rickets........rf

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From: dan

But the fight isn't over yet. Now the battle cry is "national
security", as we are to believe the P2P compromises Homeland security.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6198585.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

WASHINGTON--Politicians charged on Tuesday that peer-to-peer networks
can pose a "national security threat" because they enable federal
employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally
from their computers.

At a hearing on the topic, Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry
Waxman (D-Calif.) said, without offering details, that he is
considering new laws aimed at addressing the problem. He said he was
troubled by the possibility that foreign governments, terrorists or
organized crime could gain access to documents that reveal national
secrets.

Also at the hearing, Mark Gorton, the chairman of Lime Wire, which
makes the peer-to-peer software LimeWire, was assailed for allegedly
harming national security through offering his product.

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