Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
Larry Rosenman
ler at lerctr.org
Wed Jul 24 18:27:07 UTC 2002
Agreed here. Has this even got a bill number yet?
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 13:15, Derek Samford wrote:
>
>
> I second that. If I see any of my clients having any sort of malicious
> activity directed at them, then there is no chance of me allowing their
> traffic through. I would be more than happy to send all their traffic to
> packet hell. Large corporations do not get any special consideration if
> it comes down to the stability of my network vs. receiving their
> traffic.
>
> Derek
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> James Thomason
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:10 PM
> To: Marshall Eubanks
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
>
>
>
> Would malicious actions on the part of copyright holders violate the
> AUP of most networks? Or are service providers more willing to tolerate
> denial of service attacks by large corporations than say, spam?
>
> If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on mine.
>
> Regards,
> James Thomason
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>
> >
> > Thought this would be considered on-topic as guess who would have
> > to clean up the resulting messes...
> >
> > Regards
> > Marshall Eubanks
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> -----
> >
> > From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
> > Subject: FC: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
> > To: politech at politechbot.com
> > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:29:35 -0400
> > X-URL: http://www.mccullagh.org/
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> >
> >
> > http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945923.html?tag=politech
> >
> > Could Hollywood hack your PC?
> > By Declan McCullagh
> > July 23, 2002, 4:45 PM PT
> >
> > WASHINGTON--Congress is about to consider an entertainment
> > industry proposal that would authorize copyright holders to
> disable
> > PCs used for illicit file trading.
> >
> > A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political
> effort
> > to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt peer-to-peer
> > networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat to their
> bottom
> > line.
> >
> > Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble,
> R-N.C.,
> > the measure would permit copyright holders to perform nearly
> unchecked
> > electronic hacking if they have a "reasonable basis" to believe
> that
> > piracy is taking place. Berman and Coble plan to introduce the
> 10-page
> > bill this week.
> >
> > The legislation would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture
> > Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of
> > America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or
> > otherwise impair a "publicly accessible peer-to-peer network."
> >
> > Anyone whose computer was damaged in the process must receive the
> > permission of the U.S. attorney general before filing a lawsuit,
> and a
> > suit could be filed only if the actual monetary loss was more than
> > $250.
> >
> > According to the draft, the attorney general must be given
> complete
> > details about the "specific technologies the copyright holder
> intends
> > to use to impair" the normal operation of the peer-to-peer
> network.
> > Those details would remain secret and would not be divulged to the
> > public.
> >
> > The draft bill doesn't specify what techniques, such as viruses,
> > worms, denial-of-service attacks, or domain name hijacking, would
> be
> > permissible. It does say that a copyright-hacker should not delete
> > files, but it limits the right of anyone subject to an intrusion
> to
> > sue if files are accidentally erased.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > --
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> > Marshall Eubanks
> >
> >
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