[CLUE-Talk] Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

[black at galaxy.silvren.com]

I saw that yesterday and it struck me as well.

Why is it that common sense seems to evaporate whenever congressman and
associated lawmakers talk about the Internet? Why do they have to put the
words "e-" and "cyber" in front of every concept and term dealing with
computers and the Internet?

*lots of hand wringing*

This appears to be totally absurd. Maybe someone who agrees with this
logic can step forward and explain it to me. We already have laws that
make this illegal - adding property destruction to them doesn't seem very
effectual or necessary.


On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Randy Arabie wrote:

> 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.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6241-2003Jun17.html
>
> Wouldn't that violate existing federal laws against hacking?
>
> Let's write some more complicated and/or contradictory laws to protect
> the MPAA and the RIAA...rather than fix our intellectual property laws!
> --
> Allons Rouler!
>
> Randy
> http://www.arabie.org/
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