Boing Boing: Feds say filesharing war = drug war

Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Feds say filesharing war = drug war

Russell Page sez: This is a bit of an interesting story at CNN about filesharing:

"There are a lot of similarities with the drug war," said David Israelite, chairman of the U.S. Justice Department's Intellectual Property Task Force. "You never really are going to eliminate the problem, but what you hope to do is stop its growth."

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