FWD: Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6241-2003Jun17.html?referrer=emailarticle


Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

By TED BRIDIS
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday he 
favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people 
who illegally download music from the Internet.

The surprise remarks by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, during a hearing on 
copyright abuses represent a dramatic escalation in the frustrating battle by 
industry executives and lawmakers in Washington against illegal music downloads.

During a discussion on methods to frustrate computer users who illegally 
exchange music and movie files over the Internet, Hatch asked technology 
executives about ways to damage computers involved in such file trading. Legal experts 
have said any such attack would violate federal anti-hacking laws.

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