[CLUE-Talk] Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Wednesday 18 June 2003 07:58 am, 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!

Fixing laws and doing what is right will not get you a multi million payola.
Besides, everybody assumes that this is about stolen files. I really think 
that is more about keeping the musicians in line. I would have to guess that 
when a group makes it big because of swapping that all future groups will 
skip the labels and do their own when they see ~70% profits vs. 8%.

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cheers
g.r.r.
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