RIAA Wants Right To Hack

An Anonymous Coward writes: "According to Wired, the recording industry wants the right to hack into your computer and delete your stolen MP3s." From the article: "It's no joke. Lobbyists for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) tried to glue this hacking-authorization amendment onto a mammoth anti-terrorism bill that Congress approved last week. A copy of an RIAA-drafted amendment obtained by Wired News would immunize all copyright holders -- including the movie and e-book industry -- for any data losses caused by their hacking efforts or other computer intrusions 'that are reasonably intended to impede or prevent' electronic piracy." Does this give you the right to crack RIAA systems to make sure no one there is selling copies of your term paper?

Comments

Everyone wants to crack my computer!

[ClubStew]

Great! So now the government AND RIAA (is there any difference anymore?) want to hack my computer. What kind of country is this? Apparently freedom is only granted to those with the money. Matthew Lesko should put that in his book.

We really need to start writing our congressmen and explaining the truth to them about technology. Has everyone written their congressmen yet? With so much bad legislation being proposed, one or two are bound to get passed.

There is another solution, though: transphasic torpedoes. They took out the bork with one shot in the last episode of Star Trek Voyager; perhaps they can take out Uncle Bill's cube before he assimilates the entire government and media!

No MP3s, no problem

[Com2Kid]

While I am still opposed to awful legislation like this, I must say that the people whom I am truly mad at are those people who have pirated large amounts of RIAA CDs and shared them over the internet for everybody else to download.

It is quite attrocious that people who will get flaming mad over software piraters will think nothing at all about pirating CDs.

Fact is people have broken the laws. And after Napster was shutdown people still broke the laws. People continue to this day to break the law. If people did not illegialy pirate CDs then there would not be a need for the RIAA to so viciously defend their copyrights.

OK yah sure the music they put out is shitty (uh why are -you- pirating it then, eh?) and the artists get paid craptacuarly little amounts of money, and the legal CDs cost ---WAY--- to much, but that -STILL- _IS NOT_ and excues to pirate CDs.

Quite frankly I myself have solved the problem for myself quite simply. I do not listen to RIAA CDs at all. Problem solved.