Downloading for Democracy

[Steve Schear]

By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Jul. 19, 2004 PT
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64237,00.html

While legislators in Washington work to outlaw peer-to-peer networks, one website is turning the peer-to-peer technology back on Washington to expose its inner, secretive workings.

But outragedmoderates.org isn't offering copyright music and videos for download. The site, launched two weeks ago, has aggregated more than 600 government and court documents to make them available for download through the Kazaa, LimeWire and Soulseek P2P networks in the interest of making government more transparent and accountable.