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Hatching a New Idea
Posted by Paul Szynol on Tuesday, June 17 @ 18:54:14 EDT File Sharing
Orrin Hatch is not known for expressing, shall we say, subtle opinions. Here is his latest gem: develop self-help technology that literally destroys the computers of people who share copyrighted files.
"No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds technology to disrupt music downloads. One technique deliberately downloads pirated material very slowly so other users can't.

"I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."

In short, attack and destroy the enemy. Is that education? Or warfare?

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Re: Hatching a New Idea (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 17 @ 22:15:13 EDT
Hmm. Why not just shoot 'em? Or maybe bust their kneecaps? Spare the rod, spoil the citizens of the democracy, that's what I always say.

I guess Prof. Lessig will need to revise that "What Orrin Understands" last chapter in the Future of Ideas if our illustrious United States Sentator keeps this up... obviously the answer seems to be "not so much."


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  • Hmm... by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 18 @ 00:14:05 EDT

Re: Hatching a New Idea (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 18 @ 00:42:14 EDT
"He said damaging someone's computer 'may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights.'"

and murdering congressmen may be the only way you can teach them about due process


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Re: Hatching a New Idea (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 18 @ 11:03:55 EDT
If this story doesn't turn out to be a hoax (someone hacking the AP wire, say) then it would be reasonable to demand that Hatch be Lotted out of his chairmanship.


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Re: Hatching a New Idea (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 18 @ 18:06:00 EDT
He has just been watching too many episodes of Battle Bots re-runs.


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Re: Hatching a New Idea (Score: 1)
by mako on Thursday, June 19 @ 16:49:15 EDT
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Check out the writeup of this on SomethingAwful. [www.somethingawful.com] It's off color but definately gold. It's posted on June 19th. If it's off the front page, simply head to the archives and check it out there.


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Re: Hatching a New Idea (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, June 19 @ 22:44:36 EDT
Terrorists will have a field day if this passes. They can set up an innocuous-sending web site, fill it with their own copyrighted material, and then legally zap any computer that visits the site.


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Re: Hatching a New Idea (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, June 19 @ 23:00:20 EDT
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html

Read this. Very interesting, makes one wonder about Hatch.

(copy it into browser)


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  • GOLD (n/t) by mako on Friday, June 20 @ 03:50:44 EDT

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