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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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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."
The word "pirated", (Line 2, Para. 4) most probably means
选项
A、private
B、illegally copied
C、legally copied
D、confidential
答案
B
解析
语义理解题。由题干定位到第四段第一句The problem of pirated music has sincedeclined…此句意义为:盗版音乐的问题从此得以改善。结合上下文可知,这个问题就是非法分享的问题,联系选项可知[B]“盗版的”符合文意,故正确。其他三项均与上下文意不相符,可排除。
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考研英语一
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