I don't think the bill will be passed, but on the off chance that it is I'd expect them to slip in a DMCA style clause that makes it illegal to try to defend yourself from one of these attack, and a gag clause that keeps people from talking about defence against an attack. It's a bad road the RIAA is sending us down, eventually we won't even have legal rights to use our own computers.
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Originally posted by Stoepsel
I'm just wondering what implications that would have in light of p2p file sharing being an international phenomenon.
If the US Congress passes the bill, it would give the RIAA (or whoever really does the hacking) rights to do something on home turf. It would not give them the right to do the same thing against someone outside the US. For such wide spread rights some kind of international treaty would be needed, I'd suspect.
Doesn't this put such a bill ad absurdum?
Comments anyone?
Stoepsel
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They're a bunch of Internet Isolationists no better than the Taliban or the Chinese government.