Ahoy! Uncle John Ashcroft wants the Depratment of Justice to setup a program to bust file sharers. Woo Yay for frivelous ways to spend tax dollars. Taxpayers are to foot the bill for civil suits to protect business.

From the EFF:

“The PIRATE Act (S.2237) is yet another attempt to make taxpayers fund the misguided war on file sharing, and it’s moving fast. The bill would allow the government to file civil copyright lawsuits in addition to criminal prosecutions, dramatically lowering the burden of proof and adding to the thousands of suits already filed by record companies. It would also force the American public to pay the legal bills of foreign record companies like Bertelsmann, Vivendi Universal, EMI, and Sony. Meanwhile, not a penny from the lawsuits goes to the artists.”

Send a quick letter to your senators and tell them what you think about the Pirate Act.

It won’t be long before file sharing becomes a felony, I’m sure. I mean, afterall, P2P and file sharing is a gateway application to terrorism, child abuse, and pedophilia. (That Sen. Hatch is completely whacked out)