[Criminalizing progress and technology]
Senator Orin Hatch (Utah, and Republican, of course) wants to make it illegal to write P2P software. If this passes, it'll be another defeat of individual rights in favor of corrupt corporate interests.
The bill "will chill the development, if enacted, of not only peer-to-peer technology, but wonderful new information tools yet to be devised," P2P United executive director Adam Eisgrau said in an e-mail. "Don't buy the hype. Any member of Congress who supports this bill is voting, without so much as a hearing, to undo more than a century of solid copyright case law that has protected innovators and technology from the terrible power of entrenched industries and, in the process, created the American economy."
Senator Orin Hatch (Utah, and Republican, of course) wants to make it illegal to write P2P software. If this passes, it'll be another defeat of individual rights in favor of corrupt corporate interests.
The bill "will chill the development, if enacted, of not only peer-to-peer technology, but wonderful new information tools yet to be devised," P2P United executive director Adam Eisgrau said in an e-mail. "Don't buy the hype. Any member of Congress who supports this bill is voting, without so much as a hearing, to undo more than a century of solid copyright case law that has protected innovators and technology from the terrible power of entrenched industries and, in the process, created the American economy."
