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Diamond in the Rough: U.S. Congress Mulls Slew of Net-Sex Rules


From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:16:47 GMT

I'll only quote one paragraph of this article, which I think is
a shining example of how whacked our U.S. lawmakers are:

[snip]

Dispatching "search and destroy" bots: The idea of disrupting
peer-to-peer networks surfaced in 2002 in the House of Representatives,
and Sen. Orrin Hatch said a year later that copyright holders should be
allowed to remotely destroy the computers of music pirates. Now Rep.
Walden has revived that idea, proposing that search and destroy bots be
launched to scour the Internet for illicit content. 

"If you could search for different things, you might be able to search
for a known image, identify it and destroy it," Walden suggested. He
dubbed the idea "technologically scan and destroy." 


[snip]

Freekin' amazing.

After you've finished laughing, you can read this reast of their
bright ideas here:

 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6088627.html

Enjoy. :-)

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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