You guys want to explain it to your not-so-tech-savvy friends? Here's one way: this is just like if a law was passed to give major retail chains (Wal-Mart, Target, etc.) the right to break into your house to see if you have anyolen goods from them. Of course, as hard as it would be to really prove that something you have in real life is stolen, thinking about it, it would be even harder to prove it in cyberspace.
The thing is, it would be one thing if this was giving the FBI the right to hack your computer to see if you're doing anything wrong. I mean, law enforcement people can already get warrants to do searches and tap phone lines and stuff, when it's justified. But this is giving civilians that right.
But remember, that violates everyone's favorite unconstitutional piece of paper, the DMCA. Of course, you could reverse-engineer it for the sole purpose of challenging the law and take it to the supreme court to get it overturned. Or something like that, I dunno. I don't know too much about all that "law" crap.
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You guys want to explain it to your not-so-tech-savvy friends? Here's one way: this is just like if a law was passed to give major retail chains (Wal-Mart, Target, etc.) the right to break into your house to see if you have anyolen goods from them. Of course, as hard as it would be to really prove that something you have in real life is stolen, thinking about it, it would be even harder to prove it in cyberspace.
The thing is, it would be one thing if this was giving the FBI the right to hack your computer to see if you're doing anything wrong. I mean, law enforcement people can already get warrants to do searches and tap phone lines and stuff, when it's justified. But this is giving civilians that right.
But remember, that violates everyone's favorite unconstitutional piece of paper, the DMCA. Of course, you could reverse-engineer it for the sole purpose of challenging the law and take it to the supreme court to get it overturned. Or something like that, I dunno. I don't know too much about all that "law" crap.