House Bans File Sharing By Government Employees

Wait a minute, didn’t the house already pass a bill banning p2p file-sharing software? Is this something new? Maybe they were they just talking about it before and now just finally got around to making it official.

The House has passed a bill that would prevent government employees from using peer-to-peer file-sharing software either in the office or when accessing government networks remotely from home. The Secure Federal File Sharing Act, introduced by Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., in November, calls for the Office of Management and Budget to ban the use of applications like BitTorrent or Limewire on government PCs and networks.

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