[DMCA-Activists] Dean Sanchez on: Geeks in Government: A Good Idea?

[Seth Johnson]

(Forwarded from the Berkman Center's DVD Discussion list)

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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:04:57 -0400
From: "Dean Sanchez" <address@hidden>
To: "Dvd Discussion Group (E-mail)"
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I'm afraid that Declan has written his own rebuttal to the
proposal that he put forth in "Geeks in Government: A good
idea?".  This sets the stage for handling any technology
appears that threatens the status quo.  All that is now
necessary is for a law to be bought and the technology to be
made illegal.  It appears that file-swappers are now
considered much more dangerous to America than terrorists.

> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954591.html

Once people start getting prosecuted for swapping files, how
many of the supposed 70 million p2p users will continue?  I
seem to remember someone making the argument here that
people didn't have anything to worry about because the IP
industry couldn't go after every individual user.  They
don't have to, they just get the government to do it for
them.  They also have a way of sidestepping the public's
backlash by saying "we didn't do anything, the Justice
Department is just enforcing the law".