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House Judiciary targets peer-to-peer students: Prison terms?






http://news.com.com/2100-1028-986143.html

    Congress targets P2P piracy on campus
    By Declan McCullagh
    February 26, 2003, 11:01 AM PT

    Key politicians chided universities on Wednesday for not doing enough
    to limit peer-to-peer piracy, calling unauthorized copying a federal
    crime that should be punished appropriately.

    Members of the House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees
    copyright law said at a hearing that peer-to-peer piracy was a crime
    under a 1997 federal law, but universities continued to treat
    file-swapping as a minor infraction of campus disciplinary codes.

    "If on your campus you had an assault and battery or a murder, you'd
    go down to the district attorney's office and deal with it that way,"
    said Rep. William Jenkins, R-Tenn.

    [...]




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