> [The first two articles are spoofs -- I hope! --DBM]
> Senator wants copyright "kill switches" in PCs > Thursday, June 19, 2003; 10:12 AM
> WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee > said Thursday that future personal computers should be > required to sport "kill switches" that could be remotely > activated in cases of peer-to-peer piracy.
> Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT, said he was drafting legislation to > require devices in PCs permitting the destruction of hardware > used for widescale copyright infringement by sending a secret > command to the remote computer. A copyright holder would be > required to offer two warnings before the "kill switch" was > activated and the computer destroyed or permanently disabled, > Hatch said.
They reported it on TechTV yesterday, so unfortunately, he really did say that stuff. There's also this article:
Senator Endorses Tough Action Against Music Piracy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6559-2003Jun17.html
> Hatch is an amateur songwriter who has recorded religious > songs including, according to HatchMusic.com, works titled > Our Gracious Lord, Climb Inside His Loving Arms, and How > His Glory Shines.
Property destruction? Nice little show of Christian values there...
> One technology lobbyist, who spoke on condition of > anonymity, offered a tongue-in-cheek suggestion. "How > about if we implant 'kill switches' in politicians so > we can blow them up when they say anything this stupid?"
Damn straight! Maybe we can also set it to trigger if the politician kisses too much lobbyist ass at the expense of his own constituents. ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .............................. http://www.brin-l.org Chmeee's 3D Objects .................... http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .................. http://www.sloansteady.com Software ................ Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans ......................... http://www.sloan3d.com
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