CircleID

If this is a single, isolated incident, this is quite scary. The reported information that has been leaked this time is rather erratic. Why does this one document contain such inconsistent information? That in itself is a slippery slope because a security-minded organization would hopefully disperse these different kinds of information in different places requiring different forms of authentication to access said information. Unless, of course, it was released intentionally, to cause a media uproar and have legislation pushed a certain way.  The article doesn’t actually say how this one document was released, only that it is there now. I agree that P2P applications should be heavily regulated on secure networks; however, putting “a referee on the field” could mean so many things. Why would this matter extend beyond government organizations? Why should this one instance propagate the need to involve the FTC and the FCC? There’s certainly a lot more going on here than just digitalized information being released on the Internet. Are they trying to force mandates on how information is shared over the Internet, in general? It’s absurd that their primary notion is that P2P infrastructure condones “unfair trade practice.”This seems to be a black and white instance of politicians scaring people into voting a certain way. And for what the article is certainly most unclear about.