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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Look out, pirates: RIAA wants to hack your PC
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- Subject: [FYI] (Fwd) FC: Look out, pirates: RIAA wants to hack your PC
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- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:13:22 +0200
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Date sent: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:47:47 -0700
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Look out, pirates: RIAA wants to hack your PC
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Text of original RIAA amendment to the anti-terrorism bill, which RIAA
says it no longer supports:
http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/14/1756248
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47552,00.html
RIAA Wants to Hack Your PC
By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
2:00 a.m. Oct. 15, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Look out, music pirates: The recording industry
wants the right to hack into your computer and delete your stolen
MP3s.
It's no joke. Lobbyists for the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) tried to glue this hacking-authorization amendment
onto a mammoth anti-terrorism bill that Congress approved last
week.
An RIAA-drafted amendment, according to a draft obtained by Wired
News, would immunize all copyright holders -- including the movie
and e-book industry -- for any data losses caused by their hacking
efforts or other computer intrusions "that are reasonably intended
to impede or prevent" electronic piracy.
In an interview Friday, RIAA lobbyist Mitch Glazier said that his
association has abandoned plans to insert that amendment into
anti-terrorism bills -- and instead is supporting a revised
amendment that takes a more modest approach.
"It will not be some special exception for copyright owners,"
Glazier said. "It will be a general fix to bring back current
law." Glazier is the RIAA's senior vice president of government
relations and a former House aide.
The RIAA's interest in the USA Act, an anti-terrorism bill that
the Senate and the House approved last week, grew out of an
obscure part of it called section 815. Called the "Deterrence and
Prevention of Cyberterrorism" section, it says that anyone who
breaks into computers and causes damage "aggregating at least
$5,000 in value" in a one-year period would be committing a crime.
If the current version of the USA Act becomes law, the RIAA
believes, it could outlaw attempts by copyright holders to break
into and disable pirate FTP or websites or peer-to-peer networks.
Because the bill covers aggregate damage, it could bar anti-piracy
efforts that cause little harm to individual users, but meet the
$5,000 threshold when combined.
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