BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0

[Frank Wiles]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:34:20 -0500
Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:

> On Friday 08 October 2004 02:17 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> 
> > This week's Michael's Minutes talked about how Linspire 5.0 might be
> > illegal because it incorporates BitTorrent/P2P.  The INDUCE Act is
> > trying to make all P2P software illegal, but it could have a lot
> > broader effect than just a bunch of copyrighted music.
> 
> That would include P2P software like ftp, scp, cp, dd, tar, copy,
> etc.?

  FYI ftp, scp, cp, dd, tar, and copy aren't P2P programs. 

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