Senator OK with destroying PCs
I’ll summarize. During a hearing, Senator Orrin Hatch asked a witness, “Can you destroy their set in their home?” referring to a PC.
The witness, an employee of a company that helps record lables disrupt file sharing networks, replied saying that “nobody” was interested in that approach.
“I am,” replied Hatch, saying, “I’m interested in doing that. That may be the only way you can teach someone about copyright… That would be the ultimate way of making sure” no more copyright is infringed.
That was on Tuesday. On Wednesday someone discovered that the Senator’s web site (http://hatch.senate.gov) used code created by a U,K. company, Milonic Solutions. Milonic Solutions charges for the right to obtain a license, but Hatch’s site had the following comment in place of the license:
“i am the license for the menu (duh).”
So under Hatch’s proposed “solution”, Milonic Solutions would be able to legally (under U.S. law) destroy a U.S. government web site server.
Absolutely positively brilliant.
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