The Federal Trade Commission officially entered the brawl over peer-to-peer software Wednesday as it hosted the first day of a two-day P2P workshop in which both sides accused each other of trying to
deceive government regulators. Representatives of P2P software companies charged that content interests have tried to demonize P2P in an attempt to effectively kill it. Content providers, meanwhile,
argued that they merely want to make P2P networks more responsible to consumers and more respectful of copyright holders.
Read the whole story at Wired, December 16, 2004
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