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

Thu Jul 25 20:56:46 UTC 2002

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:11:00 PDT, "Rowland, Alan D" <alan_r1 at corp.earthlink.net>  said:

> IANAL but IMHO spewing cracked copies of say, Photoshop, or other copyright
> violations might be considered probable cause with the specific place/things
> being the share program and it's contents.

If your house was broken into, and your TV stolen, and you were walking along
and saw it in your neighbor's living room through the window, would that
give you the right to go in and reclaim it?

Would it exempt you from having to pay for a new door to replace the one
that got broken down?

You might want to ask yourself why the now-standard 17USC512 takedown
letter isn't sufficient.....

I wonder how many 'Hax0rs-R-Us' record labels are about to incorporate.

Bad JuJu.
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