Government Suggested to Regulate P2P

[Guest]

Pretty soon a law will come that specifies how many MB's you can download over P2P, and which files (like Linux iso's) are exempt from that.
The government is going into a socialistic, leading to a communistic approach. In the end the government will decide what downloads can be found on P2P networks,and what networks are allowed to exist (but with supervision).

That would totally be the worst case scenario.
I think that we can learn in what kind of a mess we have gotten us, trying to be more socialistic, and see how China (who was communistic) all of a sudden starts to live better, because they started becoming capitalistic.

"If you follow down the path of socialism, you end up with extreme communism"!

 

[Regulas]

I love how when Republicans are in charge they get bashed as the evil party that wants to take away your rights when in reality it is the socialist left who most of the time are the culprits of draconian and asinine laws.

 

[IzzyCraft]

W.e under the patriot act the NSA copies just about all internet and phone usage int he united states roughly about 80% of it is re routed and copied to NSA servers right inside your service providers buildings one such building is the At&t building in San Fransisco, and some people wondered why the patriot act goes to far.

 

[CTT]

Why all the drama and conspiracy theorys? 100's of ignorant proposals get put out every term then shot down in subcommittees. This will never happen and it only made news because of how ignorant it is.

 

[amnotanoobie]

bans open network, unsecure, peer-to-peer software from all networks and computers relating to the government and its contractors.

If this goes on as the way he wants it, it would apply only to government computers anyhow. If it gets applied to the public its a whole different matter.

 

[Jerky_san]

Why don't they regulate the idiots they hire that use lime wire on classified information computers.. Or better yet why don't they quit letting stupid mistakes go unpunished and quit blaming other people..

 

[formin]

waste of tax payers money even trying
they should spend their efforts fixing the economy

 

[CTT]

[citation][nom]amnotanoobie[/nom]If this goes on as the way he wants it, it would apply only to government computers anyhow. If it gets applied to the public its a whole different matter.[/citation]

P2P applications and other assorted software are already banned on govt computers/networks. Contractor networks in their facilities might be another matter though.

 

[hellwig]

No way the government regulates the data transferred over the network without first regulating the network. Once they limit P2P they'd limit HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc.. Pretty soon (if not already), the U.S. will have its own great firewall, with some bureaucrat deciding what is and isn't appropriate for you to see.

And I have to follow with the same sentiment as others, how does sensitive information even get to the internet in the first place? You don't keep it on computers with internet access, you don't give it out on laptops, and you don't let people use thumbdrives or iPods. This is like shutting down the highway cause you can't keep the car keys away from your grounded teenager.

 

[smashley]

This will probably only amount to an extra lesson in the mandatory Info. Awareness training that most gov't employees are required to take. Still though, it is pretty amazing how ignorant these politicians can be, blaming the application/developer/industry versus the employee/IT team allowing the program to be used on government computers in the first place. One would think they would do some research to get a full understanding of the situation before making an ass of themself trying to introduce crazy nonsense laws.

 

[Guest]

Of course we use p2p to distribute our radio programing. But no politician would differentiate legal p2p use and illeagle p2p use.
http/www.mininova.org/user/KYCA

 

[ethanolson]

Will they also ban the new HP Veiled technology?

 

[bk420]

Oh yeah! big government at its finest.

 

[anamaniac]

I'm Canadian, Eh!
And I refuse to even be bothered with American law... though sadly enough Americansa like to muslce Canada into whatever it pleases (we're their bitch, seriously).

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

Tom's, good issue, but you could have provided more info. How can you list the source as TOMS GUIDE? Anyone who thinks this isn't a big deal, is out of their MIND!! While I dis-agree with the government controlling P2P networks, SOMEHTING must be done!! My opinion is that more strict security be put in place, and punishments made harsh for any company that fails to protect consumer data in this way. How about more stringent application process for credit cards to ensure ID theft isn't happening? THAT is how they should be adressing this. If they clamp down on the P2P thing, good, great. The data is going to CONTINUE to flow, by some other means. Stop it at the SOURCE.. Sheesh..

Scary stuff.
Check out the 2 hour webcast, SCARY SCARY stuff....
http/oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=2559

 

[eyemaster]

Remember, in the Tranformers movie, when the girl slips the USB stick away and goes to her friend's place (the hacker) to decipher the information? Well, in real life, the FBI or whoever else, would never even know that it happened, and they sure wouldn't be knocking on the door that quick. It would take them weeks!

This guy is an idiot, plain and simple. P2P must not be regulated. You can't regulate people talking and you can't regulate P2P. As mentioned before quite often, it's their own fault that information gets leaked. Fix the dam, not the river.

 

[MJRSnyder]

[citation][nom]montezuma[/nom]The Federal Government has gotten out of hand. The Democratic Party has lost sight of what the United States stands for. It is within the Government's power to regulate commerce, but not what private citizens do on their own time. If I choose to use "P2P" to transmit information I own, or is for public use, it is not the Government's right to monitor that.Such actions fall into a police action, which is illegal without a warrant. Unless they are going to monitor what we are transmitting, then what else is there to regulate?[/citation]

+100000000

 

[Guest]

"New York Democrat Edolphus Towns"

All you need to know is right there. Yet another retarded individual in Congress who if he wanted to stop the spreading of classified information could FIRE the government employees who violated government policies by installing the software in the first place.

Once again, government has a problem but rather than fix its problem, it has to screw the rest of us.

 

[Guest]

kinda taking away freedom arent they? from those of us who are law obiding, them screening us surely violates privacy

oh also how about learning how to keep data secure instead of regulating p2p eh? kinda their fault for giving this data out (knowingly or not) and the people are being punished for the mistakes of the government. kinda gotta get used to it though eh? like taxes lol

 

[ravenware]

Why was limewire being used on a government network?

Sounds like they need to control their personnel, not pass a law.

I would be interested to see how the laws actually read.