Lawmakers to vote on spyware, piracy bills

A House of Representatives committee said on Friday that it has scheduled a vote on bills related to spyware and piracy next week. The Judiciary committee plans to meet Wednesday to consider the Internet Spyware Prevention Act (ISPA) and the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act (PDEA).

Both are controversial. ISPA is designed to head off a more regulatory alternative loathed by Silicon Valley but backed by key politicians. PDEA has drawn fire from consumer groups because it would boost penalties for peer-to-peer piracy and increase federal police powers against Internet copyright infringement.

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hhhhhmmmm.....let's see.......

Alright. What is so contraversial about getting rid of spyware? Although, getting rid of software to track, trace, and send home information about me, my pc, and my surfing habits would have to include some big name software companies (if this is to be takin seriously). Otherwise, it's just a waste of time.

Getting rid of file sharing is however a big deal since sharing files accross the internet is at the very heart of how the internet works. Just let me know when I have to trademark all the gifs, jpegs, and code on my website. Oh, and ah.....I will need to also know when I need to hire a lawyer to give me the legal right to create text files on various company servers in order to post messages like this.

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Your comment was concise, reasonable, and really seemed to 'hit the nail on the head'. Thank-you...

But, I will be curious as to the final-outcome.

Because, honestly...

I suspect that business' use of 'SPYWARE' will continue to be allowed (one way, or another). And, based upon the obvious PRIORITIES of the current administration and the 'DOJ', I also fear that POWERFUL 'Copyright' lobbies WILL still, ...get virtually everything that they want, ...no matter how UNREASONABLE.

But, I DO hope I'm wrong...
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Spyware?

Ah, such is the misgivings of many stupid sites whose only hope for survival is to use bogus ads
with "Your clock may be wrong" or "You may have spyware on your computer", or even "Is your PC runing slower than usual?" Those ads are just the ones that should be targeted first. Why? Because alot of (clueless or even the ones WITH clue who avoid them but they pop up anyways!)users click on them or they got a pop-up that gets past MSN's (early NON-XP) version of the pop up killer and you end up clicking it all too easily - and BAM you got Gator (or whatever the new name is!). There are some sites I use and try not to now since there are other even more stupid ads like "punch the evil kangaroo" and so on. I really could go on, but I hope you all get the idea. The nonsense needs to stop since we really could do without all the stupidity. The Anti-Spyware ruling gets my vote!

Spyware version 2

Well, I'm not sure I like ISPA or whaetever it's called, but I CERTAINLY don't like Spyware ...
We don't need software snooping on us, and we certainly don't need giant corporations who have THEIR interests at heart, to tell us to "swallow it and enjoy the ride". I for one, if spyware is to be eradicated, one of the best ways is to stop using products or services directly attaced to any sites that have the spyware on them. Period. The user or CUSTOMER is always right.
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