THREE STRIKES FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME

Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate? (Leander Kahney, Jun. 19, 2003, Wired)

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed. [...]

Hatch on Tuesday surprised a Senate hearing on copyright issues with the suggestion that technology should be developed to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Net.

Hatch said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights," the Associated Press reported. He then suggested the technology would twice warn a computer user about illegal online behavior, "then destroy their computer."

You ever notice how many folks are all law-and-order and fry-the-criminals until it's a matter of their own criminal behavior? Posted by Orrin Judd at June 26, 2003 10:22 PM