U.S. Patent Office Spreads FUD About Music Downloads
It’s simply amazing:
The United States Patent and Trademark Office claims that file-sharing sites could be setting up children for copyright infringement lawsuits and compromising national security.
“A decade ago, the idea that copyright infringement could become a threat to national security would have seemed implausible,” Patent and Trademark Director Jon Dudas said in a report released this week. “Now, it’s a sad reality.”
The report, which the patent office recently forwarded to the U.S. Department of Justice, states that peer-to-peer networks could manipulate sites so children violate copyright laws more frequently than adults. That could make children the target in most copyright lawsuits and, in turn, make those protecting their material appear antagonistic, according to the report.
File-sharing software also could be to blame for government workers who expose sensitive data and jeopardize national security after downloading free music on the job, the report states.
What happened? Did someone in the entertainment industry bribe the PTO to write this?
Report here.
supersnail • March 20, 2007 7:35 AM
Maybe Anhuaser Busch should get in on the act.
The Terrorist threat from non-drinkers.
Abstainers and abolistionists are promoting
anti-Amercan Muslim Fundimentalist views on the
so called evils of alchohol.
We recommend that such terrorist supporting propoaganda be suppresed.
Furthermore no one should be allowed to board an American aircraft without first demonstrating there
patriotism by drinking a pint of an American brewed
alcholic beveridge in full view of security.
If such measures had been in place in 2001 the 9/11 attacks would have been prevented.