Proving once again how it doesn’t take a brain to be a United States Senator, Orrin Hatch told a hearing on copyright issues how he favors destroying the computers of filetraders.
“I’m interested,” Hatch interrupted. 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. He endorsed technology that would twice warn a computer user about illegal online behavior, “then destroy their computer.”
Some clue is desperately needed in Washington, or the terrorists have already won.