Legislation requires peer-to-peer vendors to provide notice to users about files that will be shared by their software and to proactively obtain a user’s consent to install the file-sharing software. The bill also prohibits P2P vendors from blocking users’ reasonable efforts to disable or remove file-sharing software.
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The third time proved the charm for Rep. Mary Mack Bono (R-CA) as the U.S. House approved the Informed P2P User Act Dec. 8, mandating
P2P (peer-to-peer) software vendors to provide a quot;clear and
conspicuous quot; notice to consumers about the files being shared by the
software and to obtain…