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Senator Wants to "Destroy" P2P PCs
posted by mpawlo on Wednesday June 18, @03:00PM
from the remote-bang dept.
Copyright edFactor writes "Hard to believe, but Senator Orrin Hatch (Utah-R) has said that in the battle to stop someone engaged in illegal file sharing, that one of the penalties should be to "destroy their computer" remotely. He admits that there would have to be an anti-hacking exemption for this to be legal. If this is the thinking of the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, we are in trouble.

Lots of people have the story, but you can read it here (CNN/AP)."

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    Update: Senator's site steals (c)'d JavaScript (Score:1)
    by edFactor on Thursday June 19, @11:45AM (#803)
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    At the end of this [com.com] C|NET story, it is noted that Hatch's website uses copyrighted JavaScript without paying for it. Oops. He has been asked whether he, is in fact, a software pirate. No word yet - but maybe the JavaScript company will remotely destroy his web server...

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