I think that stealing music is despicable, but the implications of this are even worse.

Time to tweak that firewall!

Is that even techically possible? I have my (seriuse) doubt's

That was funny.

They just don't get it... every time they close a Naptser, Gnutella, or Kazaa an even better one will just open up. The RIAA really screwed up when they rejected the joint venture with Napster. Now they'll always be one step behind trying to plug holes and losing money in the process.

Half the CDs I own I wouldn't have bought if it weren't for Kazaa.

Might be a good thing... my guess is that Senator Hatch has never even heard of linux. If he wants to blow up a bunch of script kiddies windows boxes, I'm all for it.

(just kidding...................kind of)

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DESTROY IT!!! he says.

how about 1, 2 times warning. 3 slightly damage (ie remove ilegal downloads) 4 increased damage etc.. 10 destroy it!!!

also change what means "illegal". and howabout non US computers?

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titanium_geek

Surely the only real way to destroy their machine would be to hijack the computer at BIOS level and set the voltages way, way to high and burn the thing out? Surely this isn't possible at the software level? And surely, since it would have to pass through the kernel level in order to get to the BIOS level, it would be easily preventable? It sounds to me like this guy's idea on 'destroying' their computer is to force them to re-install Windows, which I thought was a weekly occurence anyway

what an assmonkey. i think promoting the ability of a person to make payments online for music they have downloaded would be a good idea.

He's Utah's Senator, what do you expect? SCO=Utah=Orrin Hatch...

Hmm. I wonder if that wouldn't fall under the Constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment........

Let's see, Hatch is from Utah and SCO is from Utah.

I wonder if it is something in the water?

I see his son has been keeping himself busy.

"if pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress".

I love that quote.


Congressmen aren't stupid. They know damn well what they're doing. They are all bought by these companies, and have no moral center. They are willing to hurt anyone in the process, as long as they get a little bit richer.

Its disgusting, and every politician is like this, its a shame really, no where to turn.

Thats why we use linux, open, free. It may not be the best at every single thing, but you never have to fear things like that. And im all about political movements :rebel:

HIDE BEHIND YOUR PENGUIN.

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Well, nothing in Congress scares me. I'm Canadian

You should be man. What happens in the US tends to have an effect on the rest of the world. (Please don't make this a pollitcal issue every one)

sure, how can you 'destroy' a linux box, especially if most software is being run as a nonprivileged user that wouldn't have access to torch mcuh above the user's own home directory? the only people this would seriously affect would be the users of windows and legacy macs (pre osX), unless i'ts hardware based like the so-called 'fritz chip' but even then, i'm sure the linux community would rewrite the kernel to make this chip a root-only access, or better yet a non-accessible thing so don't wory it's not going to happen anyways unless they break down your door and smash your computer wih slegehammers and/or axes

Well at least the bill is coming from a completly non-biased source