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Hearing on Hollywood Hacking Bill
DaveAtFraud writes "CNN says that Hilary Rosen and the RIAA are once again lobbying Congress for the right to sabotage P2P networks. Of course, Hilary says that the RIAA wouldn't abuse this capability. Luckily, some of the lawmakers are dubious. Also, Rep. Rick Boucher asked, 'What are the implications for the Internet's functionality when the inevitable arms race develops?' and pointed out that overzealous attempts to enforce existing copyright law had all too often targetted legitimate postings." There's also a News.com story.
..As long as the courts recognize the right to self defense for system administrators.
"They were haxoring my boxxen. I responded with deadly force, as per my rights. It's not my fault their servers couldn't take a link from Slashdot and exploded."
[The boss from Office Space] Umm, yeahhhh. Good job guys, now If we could just get you to stop sponsoring DRM chips and bills that allow broad interpretation of "illegal" activity that infringe on fair use, that'd be great, yeah.
Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
...quite a bit about this subject, but I gotta quit eating up bandwidth by surfing so my copy of Star Wars Episode 2 can finish downloading over Kazaalite.
Onto the Mount Rushmore of geekdom.
I suspect that the RIAA is distributing copies of my posts. I guess I'd better "disable, interfere with, block, or otherwise impair" riaa.org.
See my sig.
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
It's the case of the an army of the elite Vs the large army of gorillas. The elite may have a lot of neat tricks, but it will probably really hurt if the gorillas manage to close enough to make a few punches.
I don't know.. gorillas, while they may be stronger, are still pretty stupid. I mean, throw some bananas their way and that will keep them occupied. Guerillas on the other hand...
Funny, I bet lots of Slashdotters know what bullet could solve this problem.
Twice in the same day we've had examples of our digital freedoms under siege (see this morning's discussion).
Help make the EFF as strong a lobby as the NRA and this stuff will be stop! Gunowners protect the tools (guns) they think help keep them free. We should too.
"We're sorry, but the website you're trying to reach has been disconnected."
I wonder of Sony will level a DOS attack on itself then??
That would be cool.
Seriously. Just redirect the entire RIAA block to goatse or something.
"Here's a security hole for you!"
Shut up you two, don't give them any ideas.
"The words of the prophets are written on the Slashdot walls."
Britney fix? They have a fix for that?
Such is the infinite Grace of Popeye.