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Congress’s OMG Over the P2P Leak

nytimes.com — Now that Congress understands the dangers of peer-to-peer software firsthand, it should be open to legislation regulating file-sharing programs.

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  • thereyago, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1If anything this shows precisely why they should not legislate it. It is our right in a democracy to know which of our legislators is facing ethics charges. The fact that the NYtimes somehow thinks that lawmaker's inability to keep information from the public should be a moral and deciding reason to legislate on an issue speaks volumes about the all to often complicit nature of the relationship of the media to power I am not surprised though disappointed that the NYtimes wants to legislate P2P technology since it makes free the dissemination of information. However the reasoning here is hardly persuasive.

    Legislating this is not much different in my view than the legislation of literacy to control populations. Democracy doesn't function without the free flow of information. Music and art are our cultural heritage and the artificially high price driven by false scarcity is an obsolete method of distribution. Wealth is a poor way to determine participation in society. Our fore fathers understood this hence public libraries. They are closing large parts of the public library in Philadelphia and I wonder that if they did not already exist that they would certainly not be created now. A democratic society that can't allow access information stands little chance of addressing healthcare and questions of war and peace.

    A totally self interested and shortsighted editorial from the NYtimes that loves technology in the service of freedom in Iran but can't seem to see how that works here.

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