[CLUE-Talk] Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

[Dennis J Perkins]

> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 07:58, 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?
> 
> It would. Hatch is in favor of modifying those laws to allow this...
> several apologists have come forward to say that Hatch was "just trying
> to illustrate a point" and such, but I think the guy's totally serious.
> It's important to note where Hatch gets his bread buttered -- he
> "earned" $18,000 from royalties recently. 
> 
> If Hatch & Co. have their way, you can look forward to a future of
> paying every time you want to listen to a song, watch a movie, use your
> computer -- whatever. 
> 
> The mind-set of Hatch, Hilary Rosen, Jack Valenti, is so completely
> foreign to me that I can't help but characterize it as "evil" because it
> is so one-sided and hell-bent on putting complete control in the hands
> of one party, to the complete detriment of the majority of the
> population. 
> 
> The Founders would be completely horrified if they saw what had become
> of copyright law and intellectual property laws. 
> 
> Zonker
> -- 
> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
> jzb at dissociatedpress.net
> Aim: zonkerjoe
> http://www.dissociatedpress.net
> 
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It does something more radical.  You are accused, tried and found wanting 
without a judge, jury, or counsel.  The corporation becomes the
state.