Once the Supreme Court's ruling is delivered (most likely in June or July of 2005), however, a flurry of bills can be expected to be introduced rapidly. What they say will depend heavily on what the Court rules and how broad, or not, its opinion is. It's no exaggeration to say that ultimately the 109th Congress may well be the one to shape our digital future more profoundly than any other before it, and that public support for P2P United and its fight for the future of P2P technology will be more important than ever.

Temporary Congressional calm on the direct peer to peer front, however, doesn't mean that Congress has forgotten copyright issues completely. P2P United's positions on important bills in the last Congress have been archived here and a comprehensive listing of all pending copyright legislation is available by clicking here for the U.S. Copyright Office.

For current bills on which P2P United has taken a stand, please follow the links below to learn how close they are to becoming law, what P2P United thinks of them and how you can help P2P United fight today for the future of file-sharing . . . .

H.R. 1201: "Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005"

P2P UNITED ENDORSES REP. BOUCHER'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT PRO-INNOVATION "SONY DOCTRINE" FROM COPYRIGHT INDUSTRIES' ASSAULT BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT Read the full text of this bill in .pdf format (requires Acrobat reader) or in plain text Sponsored by Represenative Rick Boucher Sponsor’s Summary Bill status and cosponsors text