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March 19, 2003

Free 2B P2P

We wanted one more little push close to April Fools’ Day to get some extra media attention. It would help if The Honest Thief would be in the news once again. So we were on the lookout for new leads. There was a story on the Internet from a recent hearing of a House Judiciary Subcommittee in which Texas Representative Jack Carter proposed that stiff prison sentences would help stop piracy of copyrighted music. Pieter developed the idea that The Honest Thief could help college students faced with charges as a result of downloading pirated music. We would set up a legal defense fund we would call “Free 2B P2P.”