Piracy Crackdown

[J_RaD]

[dailytech.com...]

The bill would make P2P or BitTorrent client development a criminal offense if the distributed software was used for infringement. It also implements an interesting provision called "imminent infringement", which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk"). This is among the first official "thought crime" provisions to be proposed by the U.S. government. The bill also makes it a criminal offense to bypass DRM.

I think we are going A LITTLE TO FAR here folks.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

This is all about protecting big business. How much effort is going into stopping real online crime with intent, like the public being defrauded by online scams and phishing?

[enigma1]

reminds me of "minority report"

like the public being defrauded by online scams and phishing?

Now I think for that they should start by securing browsers and routers.