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


From: Petr Swedock <petr () blade-runner mit edu>
Date: 25 Jul 2002 10:48:36 -0400


Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com> writes:

Thought this would be considered on-topic as guess who would have
to clean up the resulting messes...

The courts. There is no possible way that this bill (as I
read it) could, in any way, be conceived as even remotely 
constitutional.  This is pure vigilante: the entertainment
thugs aren't the police and don't have the rights or authority
to do anything other than report abuses to the *proper* authorities.

Peace,

Petr


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