I found this today... Scary!
Copyright Owners May Soon Have the Power to Destroy File-Traders' Computers With No Investigation By Just Saying It Was in Good Faith -'The DMCA Made Me Do It' - According to InternetMovies.com
PR Newswire - Wednesday June 18, 2003
KAHULUI, Hawaii, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by InternetMovies.com:
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch (Utah-R) has stated his support of legislation and the development of technologies that will remotely destroy computers suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted files from the Internet. According to The Washington Post, he said, "Damaging someone's computer 'may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights.' The senator acknowledged Congress would have to enact an exemption for copyright owners from liability for damaging computers."
According to InternetMovies.com, an exemption to federal anti-hacking laws would give copyright owners the power to destroy instead of creating. First the music industry, then the movie industry, and right behind them: all copyright holders. This is America, soon to be land of the free to hack. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) already allows cease and desist orders to be carried out based upon good faith without proper investigation or proof. Michael Rossi, owner of
http://www.InternetMovies.com is suing the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, so that proper investigation be read into the DMCA. The MPAA forced their ISP to shut them down after the MPAA accused InternetMovies.com from distributing movies from the future back in 2001, such as "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," a movie that is not scheduled for release until December, 2003. Current federal anti-hacking laws maybe challenged by Senator Hatch, for the purpose of copyright holders to take justice into their own hands.
Who is going to replace all the destroyed public schools' computers from copyright holders' good faith attacks? University P2P networks could collapse and also fall victim to collateral damages based on copyright holders' good faith beliefs, not proof. Recently, some Ohio State University students had their computers seized and their Internet privileges taken away based on a good faith belief, but still no proof of any wrongdoing.
SOURCE InternetMovies.com
/CONTACT: Mike Rossi of InternetMovies.com, +1-808-283-2885/
/Web site:
http://www.InternetMovies.com /
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