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Network Safety A House committee is reopening its investigation of Internet services that let computer users distribute musi
Network Safety A House committee is reopening its investigation of Internet services that let computer users distribute musi
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2013-07-08
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问题
Network Safety
A House committee is reopening its investigation of Internet services that let computer users distribute music and movies online amid reports the same software was exploited to gain unauthorized access to government and private data.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent letters to the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and The Lime Group, which runs Lime Wire, a popular file-sharing service. The letters, signed by chairman Edolphus Towns, sought information about any such breaches and what the Obama administration and company are doing, to protect against them.
Internet file-sharing links computers across the Internet and allows users to access files stored on any other computer within the network. In the past, these networks have been popular among people who distribute popular music, movies and commercial software without paying legally required copyright fees.
The House committee held hearings in 2007. The problem of pirated music has since declined due to rising popularity of legal services such as iTunes, concerns over the threat of personal lawsuits by the entertainment industry and efforts by colleges to limit illicit data traffic on their computer networks. Lime Wire is the largest remaining such network popular among computer users.
Witnesses at the earlier hearings "easily obtained bank records, health records, military files, tax returns, corporate documents, and other highly sensitive private ides via the Lime Wire network", Towns and Issa wrote to Mark Gorton, chairman of The Lime Group.
They recalled that Gorton told lawmakers he would make significant changes in the software to prevent inadvertent disclosures of personal or confidential information over the Internet service.
"However, it appears that nearly two years after your commitment to make significant changes in the software, Lime Wire and other P2P (peer-to-peer) providers have not taken adequate steps to address this critical problem," Towns and Issa wrote.
Asked about the renewed investigation, Lime Wire spokeswoman Linda Lipman responded, "we at Lime Wire understand that Internet safety is the most important, and we strive to offer peer-to-peer’s most secure technology." She said the company had worked with other P2P providers and regulators to develop and implement protections, including changes in default settings; file-sharing controls; shared folder configurations; and sensitive-file-type restrictions.
"Our newest version, Lime Wire 5.0, by default, does not share sensitive file types such as spreadsheets or documents," Lipman said. "In fact, the software does not share any file or directory without explicit permission from the user."
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
选项
A、Worrying about the threat of personal lawsuits by the entertainment industry hasn’t disappeared since the hearing in 2007.
B、Colleges still have to limit the illegal information spreading on their computer networks after the hearing in 2007.
C、Lime Wire continued to distribute pirated music and movies online, though it has promised to make significant changes in the software.
D、Lime Wire has taken adequate steps to address the problem of disclosing per coal and confidential information over the Internet service.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。由第七段可知,爵顿承诺要在软件设计上做很大改动的两年后,Limewire和其他对等联网的供应商并没有对这个有争议的问题采取足够的行动。故[C]“尽管Lime Wire承诺要在它的软件上做明显改动,它还是继续在网上提供下载盗版音乐和电影的服务"与原文一致。从丽排除[D];由第四段前两句可知,调查委员会在2007年进行了一次听证会,在此之后,由于如iTunes这样的合法服务的兴起,剽窃音乐的情况有所改善,那些对于娱乐行业引发的个人诉讼威胁的担忧也随之减少了。大学也不需要再像以前一样费劲地限制非法数据在网络上的流通。故[A]和[B]均与原文不符,可排除。
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