the Sugar Conspiracy

Thursday, June 19, 2003

If you don't play fair, I'm taking my toys home and blowing yours up

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.

Full article here. Also, thanks to August, we can see what kind of music Orrin would have you buy instead.

posted by chris at 2:32 PM
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