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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Subject: FC: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
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Could Hollywood hack your PC?
By Declan McCullagh
July 23, 2002, 4:45 PM PT
WASHINGTON--Congress is about to consider an entertainment
industry proposal that would authorize copyright holders to disable
PCs used for illicit file trading.
A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political
effort to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt
peer-to-peer networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat
to their bottom line.
Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble,
R-N.C., the measure would permit copyright holders to perform
nearly unchecked electronic hacking if they have a "reasonable
basis" to believe that piracy is taking place. Berman and Coble
plan to introduce the 10-page bill this week.
The legislation would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture
Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of
America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or
otherwise impair a "publicly accessible peer-to-peer network."
Anyone whose computer was damaged in the process must receive the
permission of the U.S. attorney general before filing a lawsuit,
and a suit could be filed only if the actual monetary loss was more
than $250.
According to the draft, the attorney general must be given complete
details about the "specific technologies the copyright holder
intends to use to impair" the normal operation of the peer-to-peer
network. Those details would remain secret and would not be
divulged to the public.
The draft bill doesn't specify what techniques, such as viruses,
worms, denial-of-service attacks, or domain name hijacking, would
be permissible. It does say that a copyright-hacker should not
delete files, but it limits the right of anyone subject to an
intrusion to sue if files are accidentally erased.
[...]
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