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Berman's Self-Help
Posted by Paul Szynol on Wednesday, September 25 @ 11:23:14 EDT Copyright
Wired published a very brief exchange with Howard Berman, the Democrat from CA who "has drafted a bill that would exempt copyright owners from computer-fraud laws if they fight back using measures such as interdiction, decoy, redirection, file-blocking, and spoofing."

Although on June 25th Berman stated that "P2P networks must be cleaned up, not cleared out", he maintains the view that "the primary current application of P2P networks is unbridled copyright piracy", and shows little concern about the bill's impact on legitimate uses of P2P technology. "While these P2P networks have some usefulness," he concedes, "there really can't be any doubt that their primary use is sharing millions, perhaps billions, of copyrighted works. This bill fundamentally affects their whole business method."

 
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