http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26397.html
Also Shoeshine boy...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26402.html
I rob banks...
http://www.infoaust.com/prod79.htm
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Mercury News: Bill would let entertainment industry hack file-sharing networks. A sweeping new anti-piracy bill would give movie studios and record labels legal impunity to hack into file-sharing networks to halt the trade of copyrighted works. Introduced in Congress on Thursday, the bill prompted cries of vigilantism from technology advocates.
It's tempting to write off these kinds of legislative stunts as the idiocy they are. The technical impossibility of getting such a law right is only part of the issue, however, as is the sheer lack of morality in the process.
The bigger problem is the tendency of our lawmakers to bow to their corporate masters. Berman's campaign-finance debt to Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment cartel is understood, and certainly explains his willingness to screw customers.
What's more worrisome is the rest of Congress -- the utter ignorance on the part of most members of the issues. We now live in a society that takes for granted Hollywood's outrageous lies about "intellectual property" and its protection, a society that simply does not understand the value -- the necessity -- of an open, robust public domain and fair use.
Berman's stance is contemptible. Who's going to stop him?
APster?
FROM http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/