[CLUE-Talk] Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Wednesday 18 June 2003 08:40 am, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > 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
> >

You know the funny thing is that this may do more for finally getting rid all 
the MS systems out there.



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g.r.r.
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