Lasse Penttinen
25 Jun 2003 11:32
The largest Peer-To-Peer service and software providing companies are uniting and making a presence in Washington. According to the source Grokster, LimeWire and a number of unidentified P2P providers are launching a lobbying campaign to watch their interests in the U.S. Congress. The goal is to convince the decision makers about their legitimacy.
The coalition, which plans to launch in the next 60 days, has not announced its name or hired a lobbyist. The group probably will work out of the office of whatever representative or lobby firm it hires, Rosso said.
It also is honing what its message and core values will be, but the primary aim is to dispel the belief that online file sharing is at best seedy and at worst illegal.
"The problem is that legislators have just been pumped full of so much misinformation,"