MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DECLARE WAR ON P2P NETWORKS

摘要

In June and July 2003, members of Congress introduced three progressively more aggressive bills targeted at perceived evils of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. None of the bills are as extreme as last year's P2P Piracy Prevention Act, H.R. 5211, which would have provided copyright owners with a safe harbor against legal liability that could result from engaging in self-help activities such as denial of service attacks. Nonetheless, the bills contain serious legal, technical, and policy flaws that probably will prevent their enactment in the form introduced.