Following criticism of his Tues. statement condoning development ...
Following criticism of his Tues. statement condoning development of technologies to remotely damage PCs of illegal music downloaders, Senate Judiciary Committee Chmn. Hatch (R- Utah) said Wed. his comments were meant only to spur industry to find ways to…
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stop growing theft of copyrighted, personal or sensitive materials. Hatch’s comments came at committee hearing on risks associated with peer-to-peer file-sharing. “I am very concerned about Internet piracy of personal and copyrighted materials, and I want to find effective solutions to these problems,” Hatch said Wed. “I think that industry is not doing” enough about problem, he said: “I do not favor extreme remedies -- unless no moderate remedies can be found. I asked the interested industries to help us find those moderate remedies.” Hatch’s earlier comments reportedly acknowledged that Congress would have to exempt copyright owners from liability for damaging PCs. But InternetMovies.com owner Michael Rossi said Wed. that such exemption from federal antihacking laws would “give copyright owners the power to destroy instead of creating. This is America, soon to be land of the free to hack.” Rossi is suing MPAA over Digital Millennium Copyright Act cease-and-desist order forcing InternetMovies’ ISP to shut site down following allegations it was distributing unreleased movies.