Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

Thu Jul 25 22:22:38 UTC 2002

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> I can't imagine they would actually follow through with this though, all
> it takes is one incident where they cause financial harm to someone with
> an mp3 they misidentify and their highground is gone. Then again, I can't
> imagine congress being so massively stupid either, so I suppose anything 
> is possible.

One scenario I can imagine is the MPAA ddos'ing or h4x0ring a university 
hospital network because they found warez on some secretary's desktop PC. 
As a result, some databases get corrupted and patients die. Would this 
bill shield the MPAA from being liable for manslaughter?

-Dan
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