[Rumori] Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

[James Allenspach]

Steev Hise wrote:

> Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading
> By TED BRIDIS
> The Associated Press
> Tuesday, June 17, 2003; 5:22 PM
> 
> 
> 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.

You missed the follow-up story from Thursday:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html

> Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate?
> 
> Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download
> copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers
> automatically destroyed.
> 
> But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website,
> which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system
> he proposes. 


jma