[Discussioni]FYI: Hatch: destroy filesharers' computers!

[Alessandro Rubini]

L'idiozia umana e` senza fondo, ma troverete sempre qualcuno con
qualche carica pubblica che riesce sempre a stare sotto qualsiasi
umano :)

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030617/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music

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...

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."

The senator, a composer who earned $18,000 last year in song writing
royalties, acknowledged Congress would have to enact an exemption for
copyright owners from liability for damaging computers. He endorsed
technology that would twice warn a computer user about illegal online
behavior, "then destroy their computer..."

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's senior Democrat, later said the
problem is serious but called Hatch's idea too drastic a remedy to be
considered.

"The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some
Draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems
than they would solve," Leahy, D-Vt., said in a statement. "We need to
work together to find the right answers, and this is not one of them..."