This from the BBC:
Two Democrats, John Conyers and Howard Berman, have proposed legislation which would make file swapping of pirated music and software a crime.The Authors, Consumer and Computer Owners Protection and Security Act of 2003 — known as the Accops Act — carries penalties of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for uploading a copyrighted file to a peer-to-peer (P2P) network.
"I am speechless about the idea of putting music fans in jail for downloading music," [Michael] Jackson said in a statement.
"It is wrong to illegally download, but the answer cannot be jail," he added.
So who is it, exactly, who's supposed to be out of touch with reality?
Posted by timo at July 22, 2003 10:08 PM | TrackBack