Comments on: Justice Dept. wants new antipiracy powers

Government report takes aim at file swapping and says the FBI needs more money, wiretapping permission and a lot more laws.

Take care of ones own properties

If one has an issue with people in their yard, they put up a fence.

True no anti-piracy protection will ever be hackable; however it is the responsability of the property owner, to protect said property.

If what people do with their computers and the cd's they buy, is not what you intended, then rethink the media you use to distribute your property.

The government is not responsable for the protection my or your property, corp. or indivdual.

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[ordaj]

Holy hell...

They want to devote and divert resources from the war on terror??? Puh-lease. Asscroft is a buffoon and power-mad. For chrissakes, he lost an election to a dead man. The media barons needs to lead with technology, not fight it. Oh, and get a clue along with a new business model. I haven't purchased an overpriced CD in years. And everyone I know feels the same way. And, no, I don't download. Radio works fine. Holy crap, we're a frickin' pig of a nation...greedy...power-mad...arrogant...and we have a representative government of millionaires for millionaires.

[simcity1976]

Hope They

Fire ashcroft, when wins..

[simcity1976]

um

when kerry wins, ;P

Another reason...

Here is yet another reason George W. Bush has to go. When he goes so does his legal lacky John Ashcroft. We already have a brain dead Elmer Fudd in office I don't see how Kerry could be any worse.

Robert

[leebert]

Time to outlaw FTP

That's what is next if this legislation becomes law. Might as well outlaw the internet, then. The entire nature of the internet as much peer-to-peer as it is client-server.

They are spending tax dollars on this???

Malware infections and identity theft are skyrocketing, costing society billions of dollars inrepairs and lost time every year, yet they divert funding to protect big corporate business?

I guess this confirms that a thousand dollar loss to corporate America is more important than a million dollar loss to the voters...

Guns are legal but peer-2-peer illegal!!??

Assault weapons whose only purpose is to kill people are legal (after all guns don't kill people, people kill people, right) but peer-2-peer file sharing software that have a lot more legitimate use than assault weapons, and will never be used to kill anyone are to be illegal. The only consistency here is in the sweet scent of the lobbying dollars of the respective industries...

[Michael Grogan]

We need the guns..

..to deal with the government when they finish taking our freedom away. First drugs, then terrorism and now P2P networking. Any excuse is good enough for the thugs in Washington to curtail our liberties.

[C.Schroeder]

They don't deserve this...

since the last I heard they have NEVER prosecuted anyone using the 1997 Digital Copying Act. Large scale pirating for commercial gain should certainly be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but lowering the bar to this level is utterly ludicrous. There are more important problems that need to be addressed (global warming and our aging electrical grid jump to mind, not to mention foiling terrorist plots).