John Carter (R-TX) on P2P file sharing
Via beSpacific: Cybercrime, File Sharing and College Students:
On March 13, the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held an Oversight Hearing on “International Copyright Piracy: Links to Organized Crime and Terrorism” Links are as follows to the Witness List:
John Malcolm, Rich LaMagna, Joan Borsten Vidov, Jack Valenti.Although not a focus of the hearing, campus-wide file sharing was mentioned. See this related article from IDG News in which Representative John Carter (R- TX) is quoted as stating, “I think it’d be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids… If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and somebody’s got a 33-month sentence in the federal penitentiary for downloading copyrighted materials.”
