In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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US cracks down on peer-to-peer pirates: Entertainment industry hails new 
law to curb "rampant piracy"
By Declan McCullagh, Silicon.com, April 28 2005
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39129955,00.htm

"File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a pre-release movie on 
the internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a 
bill that President Bush signed into US law on Wednesday."
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New Copyright Amendments Target P2P Users
Thomas Mennecke, Slyc.com, April 28, 2005
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=766

"It appears that Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT) can finally rest his hat a on 
sucessful pro-copyright act. Co-signed by Patrick Leahy (D-VT), John 
Cornyn (R-TX) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the Family Entertainment and 
Copyright Act of 2005 (FECA) amends the existing copyright laws by 
criminalizing two particular infringing activities."