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Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading
By TED BRIDIS
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 17, 2003; 5:22 PM
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."
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I'm all for fighting piracy, and totally in favor of enforcing copyrights, but hey, whatever happenned to "fair and equitable"?
Developing technology to destroy someone's computer is simply overkill, like giving someone the death penalty for cheating on your taxes.... oops, I better not give anyone ideas
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John, I agree.
It's overkill.
LadyEagle
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Hey, John, you should have posted the link to the MP3. LOL!
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You mean, this one???
http://www.sagabegins.com/index.html
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