[wos] FW: Senator Hatch supports "damaging computers" involved in "ilegal downloading".

[Thorsten Muecke]

Better no comment, just for your interest.

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Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading
By TED BRIDIS, AP, 17 June 2003; 5:22 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6241-2003Jun17.html

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday
he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of
people who illegally download music from the Internet.

The surprise remarks by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, during a hearing on
copyright abuses represent a dramatic escalation in the frustrating
battle by industry executives and lawmakers in Washington against
illegal music downloads.

During a discussion on methods to frustrate computer users who illegally
exchange music and movie files over the Internet, Hatch asked technology
executives about ways to damage computers involved in such file trading.
Legal experts have said any such attack would violate federal
anti-hacking laws.

"No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy
Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds
technology to disrupt music downloads. One technique deliberately
downloads pirated material very slowly so other users can't.

"I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer
"may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights." ... On
the Net: Sen. Hatch: http://hatch.senate.gov

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6241-2003Jun17.html


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