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

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 11:47:53 PST

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        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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