[Rumori] Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

[Brian Flemming]

Hatch has "clarified":

HATCH COMMENTS ON COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT

Washington – Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate  
Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement:

“I am very concerned about Internet piracy of personal and copyrighted  
materials, and I want to find effective solutions to these problems.

“I made my comments at yesterday’s hearing because I think that  
industry is not doing enough to help us find effective ways to stop  
people from using computers to steal copyrighted, personal or sensitive  
materials. I do not favor extreme remedies – unless no moderate  
remedies can be found.  I asked the interested industries to help us  
find those moderate remedies.”

http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/ 
index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=205147

Which is possibly even scarier than his original statement.

Prof. Ed Felten has thoughts at his blog:

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/


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On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:17  PM, James Allenspach wrote:

> 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
>
>
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