Thursday, April 28, 2005

New law after uber file-sharers

Not all file-sharers will find life more difficult with the law President Bush just signed, but if they share a film, tune, or software program before it has been released, they could go to jail. "The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act also includes sections criminalizing the use of camcorders to record a movie in a theater, and authorizing the use of technologies that can delete offensive content from a film," CNET reports. Bush signed the law yesterday. Wired magazine's "The Shadow Internet" describes the kind of "file-sharing" this law's going after.

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