BitTorrent + INDUCE Act + Linspire 5.0

[Brian Densmore]

Wellllllll.....

I agree with you, partially.

ftp and scp could conceiveably be construed as P2P.
Especially anonymous ftp, or ftp that doesn't require a login.
In any event ftp and scp could be considered to violate
the induce act. Fortunately, it was defeated for this time
around Congress. It should be interesting how this one
gets brought back next term. On the plus side, it has 
been twice defeated, but I suspect our most esteemed
Congressman Orin Hatch will have a new version to please
his constituents ... err ... clients ... err ... ummm
... what do we call his financial backers who have no
influence over his decision making and never would 
consider bribing him in the form of contributions, etc. 
to get laws passed that are in their agenda?

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Wiles 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:34:20 -0500
> Jonathan Hutchins 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. 
>