"Representative Howard Berman, a Californian democrat, has pushed a measure that would allow intellectual property owners to use technical measures to prevent copyright infringement. These measures include spoofing -- the seeding of file-swapping networks with false versions of songs -- and hacking into sharing systems. The proposal has already come under fire from critics, who fear it would encourage corporate vigilantism....
Australia's legal code contains a provision allowing a sentence of up to six months in jail if a person breaks into a computer system without legal authority. On Tuesday the Melbourne Age ran a story saying that American executives could be banned from entering the country or face jail time if they employ the bill's hacking provisions"
Yes, I've been following this for a bit. The states is one wacked out place right now. They just passed a whole load of anti-hacking legislation, including life imprisonment sentences for anyone who endangers national security or kills anyone through malicious hacking. Fine, sounds reasonable, if the charges are reasonable and not abused, as you would charge somebody with similar things if they physically harmed someone. But where else in the world would a corporation be exempt from the law? If they claim that copying mp3s etc is the same as physically stealing , then why isn't this law the equivelent of allowing the record label to send people over and burn down your house without worry of prosecution? Seems inconsitent to me, and quite scary. Also it is very US-centric.
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"Representative Howard Berman, a ...
"Representative Howard Berman, a Californian democrat, has pushed a measure that would allow intellectual property owners to use technical measures to prevent copyright infringement. These measures include spoofing -- the seeding of file-swapping networks with false versions of songs -- and hacking into sharing systems. The proposal has already come under fire from critics, who fear it would encourage corporate vigilantism....
Australia's legal code contains a provision allowing a sentence of up to six months in jail if a person breaks into a computer system without legal authority. On Tuesday the Melbourne Age ran a story saying that American executives could be banned from entering the country or face jail time if they employ the bill's hacking provisions"
Yes, I've been following this for a ...
Yes, I've been following this for a bit. The states is one wacked out place right now. They just passed a whole load of anti-hacking legislation, including life imprisonment sentences for anyone who endangers national security or kills anyone through malicious hacking. Fine, sounds reasonable, if the charges are reasonable and not abused, as you would charge somebody with similar things if they physically harmed someone. But where else in the world would a corporation be exempt from the law? If they claim that copying mp3s etc is the same as physically stealing , then why isn't this law the equivelent of allowing the record label to send people over and burn down your house without worry of prosecution? Seems inconsitent to me, and quite scary. Also it is very US-centric.
The most interesting thing to see this guy's(Berman's) top political contributors, hmmmm.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?CID=N00008094&cycle=200...
more info for anyone interested:
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20020802_eff_berman_p2p_bill.html