RIAA wants to be able to hack "online pirates"
http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=LycosBreaking&storyID=47552&from=lycoshp RIAA thinks that it's legal for them to hack people to disable "copyright pirates", but worries that the anti-hacking provisions in the "USA" act would make it illegal. Eric
Declan's most provocative report confirms a point made on October 8 by the leaker of the alleged RIAA secret meeting, which was not reported by The Register: Quote: One particularly disturbing fact is that Codex Data System's DIRT software is supposed to be restricted to law enforcement agencies, yet the RIAA, MPAA, and IFPI have all purchased it, and use it routinely to monitor servers which are suspected of infringing content, yet are password protected such as servers which require one to sign up for a password account like hotline servers that have no guest download. Unquote Erci Murray wrote:
http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=LycosBreakingstoryID=47552&fro m=lycoshp
RIAA thinks that it's legal for them to hack people to disable "copyright pirates", but worries that the anti-hacking provisions in the "USA" act would make it illegal.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Eric Murray wrote:
RIAA thinks that it's legal for them to hack people to disable "copyright pirates", but worries that the anti-hacking provisions in the "USA" act would make it illegal.
That is an excellent summary, better than the one at the top of my article. You can find the text of the proposed, unsuccessful amendment to the USA Act here: http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/14/1756248&mode=thread -Declan
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