RIAA wants to be able to hack "online pirates"

[Declan McCullagh]

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