Darth Viscera
Jul 26th, 2002, 06:22:24 AM
Apparently Howard Berman, a Democrat from California, has proposed a bill in congress which will allow mercenary hackers paid by hollywood to legally hack into your computer and search for materials which violate copyright laws.
<a href=http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26357.html>Here</a> is the article on The Register. Personally, the idea of this vexes me no end, and is certainly the most shameful thing to visit Congress since the Alien & Sedition acts of 1796, which made it a crime for Americans to speak seditiously and prevented immigrants from coming to this country, and the two laws were tossed out (thankfully so) in 1800.
It flies in the face of the fundamental principles of this country, as well as any other freedom loving country, regardless of how deeply ingrained governmental favor is to the plutocratic establishment. Guilty until proven innocent. I regard this bill as a direct violation of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum. If the plutocracy is allowed to invade our computers, then the argument can be made that we are detained, imprisoned by fear. I personally do not want to fear corporate hackers every time I make a post at my compression board which suggests a new and superior algorithim or script for deinterlacing video. No warrant, no search.
The plutocracy should not be allowed to bypass our Judicial system legally. Jo Schmoe Vanderbilt and John Smith Carnegie should be subject to the same laws as the rest of us, regardless of the size of their pocketbooks and the army of lobbyists they have poised for battle at Arlington, looking down at the capital. No sir. Howard Berman, the corrupt democrat from California, should be tarred and feathered for bringing up such a preposterous and tyrannical bill, and I'd be happy to ride him out of my town on a rail personally.
<a href=http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26357.html>Here</a> is the article on The Register. Personally, the idea of this vexes me no end, and is certainly the most shameful thing to visit Congress since the Alien & Sedition acts of 1796, which made it a crime for Americans to speak seditiously and prevented immigrants from coming to this country, and the two laws were tossed out (thankfully so) in 1800.
It flies in the face of the fundamental principles of this country, as well as any other freedom loving country, regardless of how deeply ingrained governmental favor is to the plutocratic establishment. Guilty until proven innocent. I regard this bill as a direct violation of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum. If the plutocracy is allowed to invade our computers, then the argument can be made that we are detained, imprisoned by fear. I personally do not want to fear corporate hackers every time I make a post at my compression board which suggests a new and superior algorithim or script for deinterlacing video. No warrant, no search.
The plutocracy should not be allowed to bypass our Judicial system legally. Jo Schmoe Vanderbilt and John Smith Carnegie should be subject to the same laws as the rest of us, regardless of the size of their pocketbooks and the army of lobbyists they have poised for battle at Arlington, looking down at the capital. No sir. Howard Berman, the corrupt democrat from California, should be tarred and feathered for bringing up such a preposterous and tyrannical bill, and I'd be happy to ride him out of my town on a rail personally.