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Today on MSNBC.com's website - Orren Hatch, a U.S. Senator .. bluntly says he wants to be able to remotely 'destroy' a users computer who violates U.S. copyright laws......
Check it out:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/944690.asp?0cl=cR
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Here are his words:
Then he ran an idea by one of the panelists: what if you had a system that could detect whether people were getting songs without paying for them and could warn those infringers that what they were doing was wrong? And then, if they didn’t stop, the system would remotely “destroy” their computers.
“No one’s interested in destroying people’s computers,” said the panelist.
“Well, I’m interested in doing that,” said the senator. “Warn them, do it again, and then destroy their machine! There’s no excuse for anyone violating our copyright laws.”
Check it out:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/944690.asp?0cl=cR
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Here are his words:
Then he ran an idea by one of the panelists: what if you had a system that could detect whether people were getting songs without paying for them and could warn those infringers that what they were doing was wrong? And then, if they didn’t stop, the system would remotely “destroy” their computers.
“No one’s interested in destroying people’s computers,” said the panelist.
“Well, I’m interested in doing that,” said the senator. “Warn them, do it again, and then destroy their machine! There’s no excuse for anyone violating our copyright laws.”