Senator Orrin Hatch pirating software!

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Senator Orrin Hatch is one of the most rabid anti-pirate guys ever to grace the US Senate. He once called the Internet "A series of tubes". He declared that software and other piracy was worthy of the destruction of the pirate's computer. * (Quote) Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading." ... "During a discussion on methods to frustrate computer users who illegally exchange music and movie files over the Internet,[Utah's Republican Senator Orrin] Hatch asked technology executives about ways to damage computers involved in such file trading. Legal experts have said any such attack would violate federal anti-hacking laws." ... ""No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds technology to disrupt music downloads. One technique deliberately downloads pirated material very slowly so other users can't." ... ""I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights. (End Quote From) http://havenworks.com/computer/archive/ ~I quoted because the text is hard to find, and how long it will be up is unknown...~ * It was discovered Senator Orrin Hatch's own web site was using pirated Java software. If that is the pot calling the kettle black...someone should destroy his computer...? * http://hatch.senate.gov/