[MLUG - DISCUSSION] License To Hack?

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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License To Hack

File this under really awful ideas: A congressman believes copyright
holders
should have the legal right to maliciously hack into your computers even
if they
  as much as suspect you're pirating their work.

http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C72519%2C0.html?nlid=SEC

Copyright 2002 Computerworld Inc.
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An interesting article.

Quoting it:
"But I repeat: It's a truly awful idea. And not just because it would 
give a little moral justification to every overgrown juvenile delinquent 
who believes that "if it's OK for big movie studios to break into 
someone else's computer, then it's OK for me, too." "

Forget moral justifications. The problem looks much more profound. 
*Anyone*, including delinquents, will be given a /carte blanche/ to hack 
anyone else by doing just a few simple steps:
	1) set up a Web server with original copyrighted content;
	2) wait for Berman's bill to pass;
	3) change your Web site license to more restrictive;
	4) hack away all your Web site's visitors under a pretense that your 
copyrighted pages may now be cached on their hard drives...

Piece of cake. No prosecution. Go Berman! :(

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MK

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