H.R. 1319: Informed P2P User Act (GovTrack.us)

The House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

H.R. 1319:

Informed P2P User Act

111^th Congress

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To prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer through the use of certain "peer-to-peer" file sharing software without first providing notice and obtaining consent from the owner or authorized user of the computer.

Overview

Sponsor:

Rep. Mary Bono Mack [R-CA45]show cosponsors (37)

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Cost:

less than $1 per American annually.

This is computed from a Congressional Budget Office report, merely by dividing the estimated cost of $1,000,000 by the U.S. population. The figure is extracted from the report automatically and may be incorrect. See the report for details.

Status:

	Introduced	Mar 5, 2009
	Referred to Committee	View Committee Assignments
	Reported by Committee	Sep 30, 2009
	House Vote	...
	Senate Vote	...
	Signed by President	...

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Last Action:

Sep 30, 2009: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

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Oct 1, 2009 5:57 PM - As distributed computing and network book, etc, all require remote sharing of files, would samba, linux kernel, nfs, and ssh developers and distributers suddenly be liable for a unlimited liability due to having a more flexible model than "this is what you are sharing public/this is what you are not sharinging to the public" model of "traditional" (obsolete) peer-to-peer transmission programs? - Answer it!

Sources of Influence

MAPLight.org reports that the following organizations have taken a stance on this bill:

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Electronic Privacy Information Center Progress & Freedom Foundation Stop Child Predators	Business Software Alliance Distributed Computing Industry Association

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