Lawmakers Caught Again By File-Sharing Software
Found on Slashdot on Friday, 30 October 2009
A document, apparently a 'confidential House ethics committee report,' was recently leaked through file-sharing software to the Washington Post.
Reader GranTuring points out that the RIAA took the opportunity to make a ridiculous statement of their own. They said, "the disclosure was evidence of a need for controls on peer-to-peer software to block the improper or illegal exchange of music."
The "blame someone else" mantra doesn't work, sorry. Just because somebody working for the government was too stupid to use the application he installed correctly doesn't mean that it's the fault of P2P.