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:

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On Friday 08 October 2004 02:17 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote:

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This week's Michael's Minutes talked about how Linspire

5.0 might be

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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.