[50320] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Jul 25 12:01:32 2002
To: Petr Swedock <petr@blade-runner.mit.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:48:36 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:59:59 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:48:36 EDT, Petr Swedock said:
> The courts. There is no possible way that this bill (as I
> read it) could, in any way, be conceived as even remotely
> constitutional. This is pure vigilante: the entertainment
The fact that a law is unconstitutional on the face of it has rarely stopped it
in the past - that's why the courts have the authority to throw out bad laws.
Unfortunately, we better be ready for several years of pain while a test case
makes it way up the judicial pecking order...
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