As we all the know United States is in the early states of becoming a hell for consumers of digital products. The country adopts more and more laws that restrict the use of digital media and now the state's employees will be one of the first to suffer from it.
The computernetwork of the offices of Capitol Hill are now protected by a firewall that also blocks access to peer to peer networks:
Entertainment lobbyists love the Capitol Hill crackdown, since it proves their point that any major offensive against digital looting must include technology making it difficult for pirated material to be swapped in cyberspace. |
In an Aug. 12 memo, House Information Resources notified all offices that the firewall would "better block malicious external systems and messages from entering the network."
Earlier in the summer, the Senate sergeant of arms announced that lawmakers and staffers would be blocked outright from visiting such sites as Gnutella ( news - web sites) and Morpheus. The two sites have been targeted by the Motion Picture Assn. of America, the lobbying arm of the major studios, as being chief culprits in the file-swapping of illegal films.
Computer staffers on Capitol Hill are alarmed that downloaded material could spread viruses.
Now the people over there can't download anything what they want anymore I wonder how long it will take before peer to peer networks will become legal ! Read the entire story here.
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Source: Yahoo.com
