Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> July 23, 2002, 4:45 PM PDT
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> Could Hollywood hack your PC?
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> | Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal
> | that would authorize copyright holders to disable PCs used for
> | illicit file trading.
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> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945923.html
There seems to me too many possibilities of mistakes.
Send an email to someone with an attached file and their machine might be
disabled. If they happend to be a home user then their damage is likely to
be deemed less than $250 so they can not do anything about it.
Play a DVD of the niece dancing in the school play at the infants school
'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' and you might get a disabled computer.
I wonder how they intend to decide when a file is an illegal copy, now that
we are very likely to be able to buy more video's online. Plus we can use
on DVB TV to record programs just like a video recorder. How on earth could
they say those are legitimate copies or not, they are nothing more than a
file.
I actually don't mind them going after people making illegal copies to sell,
they are taking money away that could be used for the next block buster
(Police Academy 27 or something) and I know they are having a hard time
coming up with a way to catch the criminals. But this isn't the way to do
it really.
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