See also: "Look out, pirates: RIAA wants to hack your PC" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02656.html "Rep. Howard Berman declares war on P2P networks, plans new laws" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03702.html --- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945691.html?tag=politech Hollywood heads up anti-piracy charge By Declan McCullagh July 22, 2002, 5:20 PM PT WASHINGTON--Hollywood's lobbyists are readying a new legislative push on Capitol Hill. On Monday, a lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America said to expect new bills soon to assail illicit peer-to-peer file trading and curtail the piracy of digital TV broadcasts. [...] Last month, Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., said he was writing a bill that would allow aggrieved content owners to launch technological attacks against file-swapping networks where their wares are traded. "No one in the motion picture industry has any interest in invading your computer or doing anything malicious with your files," said the MPAA's Attaway. "The idea is to make unauthorized file sharing sufficiently inconvenient or at least unsuccessful." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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