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Wednesday, June 18, 2003


Orin Hatch has lost his freakin' mind. Since when has the deliberate destruction of private property been a suitable alternative to the violation of copyright law?
"I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."
"If we can find some way to do this without destroying their machines, we'd be interested in hearing about that," Hatch said. "If that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines. If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize" the seriousness of their actions, he said.
What a novel idea! Next we can have onboard computers that will damage your piston rings when you exceed posted speed limits, or exploding VCRs that self destruct when you copy a tape. But Instapundit has the best idea:
In the spirit of the Framers, I'm tempted to endorse a more traditional remedy: twice warning a politician about threatening people's rights and property, and then running him out of town on a rail.

That's one, Orrin.
The Onion had a piece a while back about how the RIAA was going to sue the radio stations for "illegally distributing copyrighted material all over the country." Doesn't sound that unreasonable now, does it?

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