Hollywood to Hack your Computer
Hollywood can hack your PC accroding to a draft bill sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C. basically the RIAA and the MPAA want the ability to hack into your computer based on the "suspicion" of copyrighted materials exist on a computer. And guess what, if you try to instal a firewall or a script to stop this illegal intrusion on your computer, you would be breaking the DMCA and would be considered a hacker terrorist and recieve a life sentence. All for possibly downloading the crap that is on the radio these days. Thats right - you didn't even kill anyone and you are now in prison, and are being sold for a carton of cigarettes? Who says corporations have too much power?
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.
As usual, bring out the Heinlein quote: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.
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
-Robert Heinlein, Life Line, 1939
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