"The U.S. Copyright Office has drafted a new version of the Induce Act that it believes will ban networks like Kazaa and Morpheus while not putting hardware such as portable hard drives and MP3 players on the wrong side of the law," reports CNet.
"But the Copyright Office's proposal is raising eyebrows among consumer groups and Internet providers, who fear that it suffers from many of the same defects as the original. One section, for instance, says companies that "actively interfere" with a copyright holder's efforts to identify pirates could be liable."
Comment: When will the RIAA and their ilk realise that the ship sailed on this one years ago? Online recently wrote that filesharing actually has little effect on music sales - something the figures subsequently confirmed.
If the music companies spent as much time and energy on making p2p technology work for them rather than trying to ban it, then they'd probably be a lot better off - and so would we.
