Here’s the full text of Hilary “RIAA” Rosen’s talk at the O’Reilly P2P conference, in which she told us that P2P needed to be reigned in, not just to save the poor artists whose music is being stolen — that being uppermost on the RIAA’s list of priorities, natch — but also to keep terrorists and chickenhawks from doing their dirties. Let’s see, Hil, P2P is about theft, terrorism and tot-fondling; any other fearmongering quarter-truths missing from your list? Is P2P Communism?

Increasing security concerns and even national security concerns at this delicate time. Peer-to-peer will get attention because of the soldier risk in denial of service attacks, the spread of viruses that endanger national computer network infrastructure and other things of current concern.

The fact that it is also used as a transmitter of child pornography has not gone unnoticed by many federal and law enforcement authorities.

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