Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Lets Legislate Against Sweeping Generalizations.

A couple congressmen are railing against P2P networks because a few government morons installed Limewire on their computers and shared privileged information.  They're now drafting a bill that will somehow control the problem, never mind the fact that the violated government policy already solves it.  You just need to enforce the policy.  But no, I'm sure they'll piece together some type of phrasing that will, because of their total ignorance in the field, either be completely in effective or outlaw general P2P file transmission.  Which is akin to banning the use of windows in peoples' homes because burglars can sneak into government offices if staffers forget to lock them.

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