Anti-File Sharing Lobbyists/Lawyers Shove Each Other Aside To Bl...

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 10/30/2009 - 20:00

A couple years ago, some entertainment industry lobbyists hit on a new idea for trying to get Congress to legislate against file sharing software: figure out ways to blame it for stupid employees.

More specifically, figure out a way to blame it for stupid employees... in the government. So, those lobbyists have worked hard to highlight every single time some sort of sensitive government information was leaked via file sharing programs, and then even got Congress to investigate ...

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