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

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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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