The House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has sent a 7-page letter to the Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Deborah Majoras regarding P2P networks and the danger involved with users possibly sharing sensitive information inadvertently.
The concern here is that users could expose personal and identifiable information without meaning to. This looks like Congress’ latest stint to find reasons to shut down P2P networks in hopes of squashing the plague of copyright infringement. Those that formatted this letter have also asked the FTC to outline any risks it believe are associated with P2P networks.
Is this really enough reason to investigate or try and get rid of P2P networks all together? Of course not. No details on how the FTC will handle this case have yet emerged. Some other issues we’ve seen higher authorities involved in are the Internet tax ban, and Australian Parliament regarding police ability to block websites. In other news, BitTorrent has signed a new CEO and CTO.
[via CNet]
Visit here to subscribe to these commentsUser comment: By: CountRobHell, I'm waiting to hear something like "P2Ps are Terrorist Networks designed to promote Terrorism and other unlawful acts. We know from investigations that they are mostly used by Al Qaeda to communicate with each other and plan secret attacks on America. Therefore, in the interest of National Security, they will be shut down." That would be a good excuse. Seriously, this is REALLY, REALLY stupid. How do you shut down a decentralized network? Seriously, how do you do that? You can't morons, I guess we'll just have to ban the internet...
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