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Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Thu Jul 25 12:04:06 2002

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:48:36 EDT, Petr Swedock said:

> The courts. There is no possible way that this bill (as I
> read it) could, in any way, be conceived as even remotely 
> constitutional.  This is pure vigilante: the entertainment

The fact that a law is unconstitutional on the face of it has rarely stopped it
in the past - that's why the courts have the authority to throw out bad laws.
Unfortunately, we better be ready for several years of pain while a test case
makes it way up the judicial pecking order...

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