Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

"The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet."

"I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."

The senator acknowledged Congress would have to enact an exemption for copyright owners from liability for damaging computers. He endorsed technology that would twice warn a computer user about illegal online behavior, "then destroy their computer."

read this article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6241-2003Jun17.html

but now here is the kicker:"Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed.

But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes."

read about this here: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html

I love it when that shit happens.

Maybe it will shut that asshole up for a few days.

Yeah I read about that, too. Good to see it mentioned here. But from what I understand it wouldn't work legally.

well it wouldnt ever "work legally"! it just proves the fact that he is a dipshit when it comes to technology and that he is a nincompoop for the simple fact of even thinking that.

Exactly.