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The upside to this is that if you are a hacker, you can now legitimize your activities and legally protect yourself by spending $30 to incorporate as a record company. On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:40:51 -0400 > From: Marshall Eubanks <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking > > > Thought this would be considered on-topic as guess who would have > to clean up the resulting messes... > > Regards > Marshall Eubanks > > ----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> ----- > > From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> > Subject: FC: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:29:35 -0400 > X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/ > X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/ > > > > http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945923.html?tag=politech > > Could Hollywood hack your PC? > By Declan McCullagh > July 23, 2002, 4:45 PM PT > > WASHINGTON--Congress is about to consider an entertainment > industry proposal that would authorize copyright holders to disable > PCs used for illicit file trading. > > A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political effort > to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt peer-to-peer > networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat to their bottom > line. > > Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C., > the measure would permit copyright holders to perform nearly unchecked > electronic hacking if they have a "reasonable basis" to believe that > piracy is taking place. Berman and Coble plan to introduce the 10-page > bill this week. > > The legislation would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture > Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of > America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or > otherwise impair a "publicly accessible peer-to-peer network." > > Anyone whose computer was damaged in the process must receive the > permission of the U.S. attorney general before filing a lawsuit, and a > suit could be filed only if the actual monetary loss was more than > $250. > > According to the draft, the attorney general must be given complete > details about the "specific technologies the copyright holder intends > to use to impair" the normal operation of the peer-to-peer network. > Those details would remain secret and would not be divulged to the > public. > > The draft bill doesn't specify what techniques, such as viruses, > worms, denial-of-service attacks, or domain name hijacking, would be > permissible. It does say that a copyright-hacker should not delete > files, but it limits the right of anyone subject to an intrusion to > sue if files are accidentally erased. > > [...] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list > You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. > To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html > This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ > Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > >
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